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These patriarchal theories naturally consecrated the slavery of woman. McLennan, Studies, “Kinship in Ancient Greece”; Letourneau, Evolution of Marriage, pp. 336-337, and Starcke, The Primitive Family, pp. 115-116.
Let us note also that in the Slav communities women had the right to vote, and might be elected to the government of the community. De moribus Germanorum, XX. See also K. Pearson, The Chances of Death, Vol. II, p. 132. Grimm, Mythologie, Vol. I, p. 248. K. Pearson, The Chances of Death, Vol. II, p. 102. Starcke, op. cit. p. 105, citing Dargun and Grimm. See also Letourneau, op. cit. pp. 339-340.
Some writers, like Letourneau, the French ethnologist, have gone to the length of arguing that Lord Bacon was a Materialist, and that his Theistic utterances were all perfunctory: as it were, the pinch of incense which the philosopher was obliged to burn on the altars of the gods. This much at least is certain Lord Bacon rarely speaks of religion except as a philosopher or a statesman.
Her friend may, without being censured, cut the name of the lady on the rocks or chant her virtues. ‘Friends of different sexes,’ say the Touaregs, ‘are for the eyes and heart, and not for the bed only, as among the Arabs.’” Letourneau, in quoting these passages from Duveyrier, makes the following comment: “Such customs as these indicate delicate instincts, which are absolutely foreign to the Arabs.
Letourneau, Evolution of Marriage, p. 335. Golden Bough, Part I. The Magic Art, Vol. II, pp. 270, 289, 312. Müller and Bachofen, cited by Giraud-Teulon, op. cit. pp. 283-284. The Truth About Woman, pp. 227-242. The evidence with regard to prehistoric Greece is much more complete. The Greek γένος resembled the Roman gens.
"Our moral sentiments," say Letourneau, "are simply habits incarnate in our brain, or instincts artificially created; and thus an act reputed culpable at Paris, or at London, may be, and frequently is, held innocent at Calcutta or at Pekin."
Letourneau, op. cit. 328. Bearing this in mind, we may accept the statement of Strabo: “Among the Cantabrians usage requires that the husband shall bring a dower to his wife, and the daughters inherit, being charged with the marriage of their brothers, which constitutes a kind of gynæcocracy.” There is possibly some exaggeration in the term gynæcocracy; yet if there is no proof of “rule by women,” there can be no doubt that, through the system of female inheritance, property was held by them, and this must certainly have given them the power always involved by the possession of wealth.
Of the conditions that have prevailed under the monogamous custom and among the so-called superior races, Letourneau, in his Evolution of the Family, says: "The Hebrews seem to have been alone, among the Semites, in adopting monogamy, at least in general practice. Doubtless the subjection of the Jewish woman was not extreme as it is in Kabyle; it was, however, very great.
B. MALON, Le Socialisme Integral, 2 vol., Paris, 1892. ZULIANI, Il privilegio della salute, Milan, 1893. LETOURNEAU, Passé, présent et avenir du travail, in Revue mensuelle de l'école d'anthropologie, Paris, June 15, 1894. "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp," is the way Robert Browning expresses this in "Andrea Del Sarto." Translator. Tr.
In Ireland women retained a very high position and much freedom, both before and after marriage, to a late period: temporary unions were freely allowed, and customs having the force of law safeguarded the rights of the wife. “Every woman,” it was said, “is to go the way she willeth freely.” Letourneau, op. cit. p. 338. Maine, Early Institutions, pp. 113 et seq.
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