Note 545 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

McLennan, op. cit., I, 10, criticises Müller, Doric Races, Book IV, chap, iv, sec. 2, who accounts for the sign of rape in the Spartan ceremony on the ground of coyness. See also Rossbach, Die römische Ehe, 328, who holds the same view; and Rawlinson's notes, Herodotus, Book VI, 65; Finck, Primitive Love, 123 ff., who rejects Spencer's theory.