Note 245-6 — Chapter II
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
The relation existing between the so-called organization of labor (§ 82) and a community of wealth is repeated in the relation of a community of wives to the situation in Dahomey, where every man has to purchase his wife from the king. Gumprecht, Afrika, 196. Similarly among the Incas: Prescott, Hist. of Peru, I, 159. Even the sale of wives is a step in advance as compared with a community of wives (§ 67 seq).