Note 680 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, 748, 750. Elsewhere he says: "The only limit to the brutality women are subjected to by men of the lowest races is the inability to live and propagate under greater;" but, he adds, savage women are just as selfish and just as cruel as men, they only lack the power. A captured or purchased woman is an "absolute possession."—Ibid., I, 746-49.