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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 447 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY

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This is the view of Westermarck, op. cit., 482, as opposed to that of Chervin, Recherches médico-philosophiques sur les causes physiques de la polygamie dans les pays chauds (Paris, 1812), 38; and he is sustained by Goehlert, "Die Geschlechtsverschiedenheit der Kinder in den Ehen," ZFE., XIII, 127. See also Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, 689, 690; Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 204, 205.

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