Note 245-8 — Chapter II
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
Turkish married men are frequently impotent at the age of 30. (Volney, Voyage dans la Turquie, II, 445.) Similarly in Arabia. (Niebuhr, Beschreibung, 74.) The use of aphrodisiac means very wide-spread in the East. According to Niebuhr (76), monogamous marriages produced absolutely more children than polygamous. Compare G. Botero, Ragion di Stato, VIII, 93 ff.; Montesquieu, Lettres Persanes,[TN 80] N., 114; Süssmilch, Göttl. Ordnung, I, Kap., 11. On the other hand, Th. L. Lau, Aufrichtiger Vorschlag von ... Einrichtung der Intraden (1719), 6, recommends the allowing of polygamy as a means of increasing population.