Note 696 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Westermarck, op. cit., 220; Leslie, Among the Zulus and Amatongas, 194; cf. also Ploss, Das Weib, I, 54; Darwin, op. cit., 598. The despotic power of the husband is modified in practice through influence of the wife's friends: Rehme, in ZVR., X, 39, 40, 41, 42; Ratzel, Hist. of Mankind, II, 434.