Part 3 — INDEX
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A
Abipones, their customs, 148;
independence of women among, 186
Abrotonum, 342
Adoption, among early races, 144, 145, 324;
symbol of, 146, 147
Affection in primitive groups, 126
Agamemnon, 256
Agnation, 351
Ainos, 49
Altruism, its development in the female, 17, 67, 86;
its development in society, 124, 140
Amazonianism, 208
Andromache, 283
Arabia, organization of society in, 129, 177;
marriage in, 179, 181, 182
Arawaks, their customs, 147, 174
Archonship, 259;
its close, 264
Areta, 332
Aristocracy, its growth among the Greeks, 251, 265-267
Aristophanes, his picture of female philosophers, 338
Aspasia, preceptress of Socrates, 334;
her genius, her teachings, 337-338
Assembly of the people, 156;
development of the, 251;
its duties, 259;
its disappearance in Greece, 264;
its powers among the Spartans, 293
Atavism, 52
Athene, her decision concerning paternity, 272
Athenian men, their policy, 285;
ashamed of their name, 318;
their wives Carians, 319;
their moral degradation, 323-326
Athenian women, imported foreigners, 319;
their degradation, 323;
their division into classes324;
decline of influence among, 329;
their reputed licentiousness, 339
Auletrides, 325
Australians, 230
B
Babylonian women, 234, 340
Basileus, germ of present king, 156;
does not correspond to modern monarch, 156, 255, 257;
elected by a constituency, 253;
abolition of the office of, 259
Birds, their courtships, 20-21;
aversion of females for certain males among, 20;
the female among, chooses her mate, 20, 23, 25, 108;
efforts of the male to please the female among, 21;
eagerness of the male among, 21, 26, 30;
powers of the female among, 27;
inheritance of the female among, 29;
inheritance of the male among, 29;
constancy of the female among, 108
Burgesses, 272
C
Captives, not enslaved in early groups, 145;
as sexual slaves, 163, 276
Cecrops, 262, 272, 329, 362
Chastity of early races, 110, 113, 114, 306
Clisthenes, 249, 261
Codrus, 249, 259, 264
Colour-blindness, 55
Common law, the, woman’s position under, 357
Communal marriage, 225
Concubines, 327
Couvade, la, its extent, 148
Crates, 334
Cuckoos, character of, 69
Cynic philosophy, the, its principles, 332
D
Danaūs, daughters of, 274
Deme, establishment of, 249, 260
Democracy, of early races, 127;
of the early Greeks, 250-251;
decay of, 264-265, 267;
in ancient Italy, 313
Descent, traced through men, 128, 135, 281;
in Arabia, 131;
in Greece, 133
Descent, traced through women, 141, 142, 157, 222;
its universality, 228, 311;
among the Iroquois Indians, 249;
law of, 253;
in Lycia, 310
Desires, primary, of the male, 20
Dicteriades, 327
Differentiation, 8, 10, 16, 65
Diseases of women, 61;
not constitutional, 54
Dorians, their conservatism, 285
Draco, 266;
his laws, 322
E
Early Christianity, 361
Ecclesia, 251
Ecclesiasticism, its effect on the position of women, 356-357
Egoism, its development in males, 17, 86;
not pronounced among earliest races, 125, 140;
its development in later ages, 155
England in the nineteenth century, 370
Epicureans, 333
Eupatrids, their cupidity, 264
Evolution, individual and historic, 15
F
Family, the, not the basis of the gens, 246
Female, conditions which produce the, 39
Fijians, their customs, 116-117;
parental affection among, 118
Foreign women, as wives, 188, 192, 219;
as concubines, 283, 327, 348
France, marriage customs in, 172;
in the nineteenth century, 370
G
Gaius, 353
Genealogies traced through fathers, 271
Gentile organization, the, universality of, 124;
principles established by, 124;
democratic character of, 127, 138, 139, 152;
unity of, 128;
government under, 137, 152, 156, 247;
property belonging to, 140;
altruistic character of, 140, 157;
in Greece, 245;
its decay, 260;
its final overthrow, 261;
in Athens, 262
Glycera, 341
Government, development of, 248
Greek society, its construction, 243, 245
H
Hairy covering for the body, 49-51
Hand, the female, 59
Hercules, tradition of, 273
Hetairai, a term of reproach, 329;
their renown, 330;
origin of the word, 338;
honoured citizens, 341;
judged by masculine standards, 344
Hindu law, 352
I
Infanticide, McLennan’s theory of, 217;
not practised by early races, 220;
Sir J. Lubbock’s theory of, 226-227
Insects, nutrition determines sex, 40;
males appear first, 42
Iroquois Indians, 137
J
Justinian Code, 357, 359
L
Lamia, 326
Lance, symbol of property, 181, 312
Leontium, 334
Life, origin of, 4;
earliest forms hermaphrodite, 11, 15
Lydian women, 340
Lysicles, 336
M
Magna Charta, 369
Man, shorter-lived than woman,
45, 53;
imperfections in the organization of, 55-59;
superior to woman, Darwin’s theory, 75;
assumes the duties of maternity, 147;
superior to woman according to edict of Apollo, 199
Marriage, origin of, 161;
in India, 163;
Racshasa, 163;
in Arabia, 164, 179, 181, 182;
by Confarreatio and Usus, 164, 351;
among the Israelites, 165;
in Afghanistan, 165;
in Greenland, 170;
in Nubia, 171;
in Sparta, 173;
sadica, 179;
beena, 180;
motă, 181;
ba’al, 181, 188, 193;
laws of Mohammed, 183, 188;
in Japan, 185;
in Rome, 189;
of the future, 399;
rise of the present system of, 197;
ceremonies among the Spartans, 310
Matter, conservation of, 6
Mother-in-law, the, her aversion to sons-in-law, 174, 236
N
Names, adoption of, 144
Nemeas, 341
O
Ontogeny, 7
Oracles of the Greeks controlled by women, 309
Organization of society, 123
P
Pangenesis, 29
Parthenogenesis, 38, 40
Paternal affection, absence of, among lower orders, 69, 71;
not a primary character, 71;
absence of, among lower races, 149;
absence of, among the Romans, 189, 191
Pericles, 335
Perpetual tutelage of women, 350
Political society, establishment of, 249, 260-261
Polyandry, not practised among lower orders, 107
Polygamy, rise of, 106, 189
Poverty of the masses in Greece, 266
Primitive races, promiscuity among, 107, 115, 211;
chastity of, 108, 110, 112, 116, 306, 307;
morality of, 112, 115, 118;
humanity of, 145
Property, control of, 140, 221;
inheritance of, 141;
in early Greece, 250
Protection of women in early groups, 112, 117, 146, 178, 186
Q
Quadrupeds, constancy of the female among, 24-25, 106-107;
unions of, not left to chance, 25
R
Religion of Mohammed, 183
Religious idea, 150, 211
Reversion, 48, 52
Rights of Roman fathers, 191, 313
Roman family, the, 312, 349, 352
Roman lawyers, 352-353
Roman society, its constitution, 243
Roman women, 178, 189, 314
Rotifera, 38
S
Sabine women, capture of, 312
St. Paul, 361
Selection, natural, 7
Selection, sexual, Darwin’s theory of, 18;
compared
with artificial selection, 36;
processes of, reversed, 82;
lower characters eliminated through, 90
Sexes, origin of, 11, 14-15;
numerical proportion of, 39, 43, 52
Slavery, 145;
its extent in the nineteenth century, 369
Socialism, 390
Socrates, 334-335
Solon, his legislation, 320-321;
his character, 320, 322
Spartan women, their power, 298, 308;
they controlled the land, 298;
they resisted the laws of Lycurgus, 299;
they originated the exercises of the youth, 300, 302;
their dress, 303, 305;
their influence, 303, 304, 310, 361
Spartans, their government, 156;
democratic character of their institutions, 252-253;
their senate, 286;
their morality, 302, 304;
adultery unknown among them, 307, 316;
election of senators among the, 309, 310
Stoic philosophy, the, its principles, 334, 347-348;
its effect on Roman law, 348
Struggles for mates, 22-23, 64
Survival of the fittest, 388
Symbols in marriage ceremonies, among the Circassians, 171;
in Abyssinia, 172;
in Arabia, 172;
in Scandinavia, Wales, and Ireland, 173;
in Central Africa, 175;
in Italy, 176;
as explained by McLennan, 216
Sympathy, development of, 67
T
Thargelia, 337
Themistia, 334
Themistocles, 342
Theseus, 260, 271;
united the Attic tribes, 262
Timotheus, 342
Tribe, the, its formation, 126, 153;
growth of the governmental idea within, 247
Tribes named after women, 273
Tyrannies established among the Greeks, 263
U
Union of tribes in Athens, 262
Unisexual forms, development of, 15
V
Variability denotes low organization, 36
Variations in the human body, 47-48
Vital force, expenditure of, 32
W
Wife-capture, among the Israelites, 164;
among the Arabians, 177;
its extent, 177;
McLennan’s theory to account for, 215;
Lubbock’s
theory of, 224-227;
among the Spartans, 310
Women, in excess of men, 52;
of Greenland, 54;
their intuitions, 78;
their apparel, 80;
of Australia, 111;
among the Kaffirs, 111, 146, 187;
of early German tribes, 112;
of Nubia, 111;
of Sumatra, 112;
of Tahiti, 116;
among the Fijians, 117, 186;
among the North American Indians, 139;
head of the family, 139, 144, 154;
of Arabia, 178-179, 188;
of Rome, 178, 190;
in Japan, 185;
among the Abipones, 186;
among the Greeks, 272, 276, 277, 279, 283;
under the ancient Roman law, 350;
under the middle Roman law, 352-354
Y
Yavanas, 318
Z
Zeno, 334
Zulus, marriage customs among, 173