Note 549 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Ibid., 117. Compare the suggestions of Abercromby, that "marriage with capture—by which he understands capture of a bride, associated with some other form of marriage, such as that by purchase—may be regarded rather as a result of the innate universal desire to display courage, than as a survival of a still older practice of taking women captive in time of war."—Westermarck, op. cit., 388, citing Abercromby's "Marriage Customs of the Mordvins," Folk Lore, I, 454. Cf. Letourneau, op. cit., 128.