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There is no marriage ceremony, but having secured the girl's consent and paid her father and mother the young man simply goes to her mat. They then remain two days in the house, because they are afraid of the omen birds. On the third day both go to fetch water from the river and she begins to husk rice. Monogamy is practised, only the chief being allowed to have five or more wives.
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.
This absolute monogamy is, in M. Comte's opinion, essential to the complete fusion between two beings, which is the essence of marriage; and moreover, eternal constancy is required by the posthumous adoration, which is to be continuously paid by the survivor to one who, though objectively dead, still lives "subjectively."
Those who think of monogamy as something imposed on human nature through external authority, a sort of strait jacket of emotional restraint, are obtuse to the overwhelming testimony of human nature. Monogamy is not established by a thundering edict from Mount Sinai, but by the quiet, persistent inward-speaking of human need.
There has long been a dispute among the historians of marriage as to the first form of human marriage. Some assume a primitive promiscuity gradually modified in the direction of monogamy; others argue that man began where the anthropoid apes left off, and that monogamy has prevailed, on the whole, throughout.
She is on a par with the man in seeking. Without fear and without shame, and, attendez, Maru, without any more monogamy than you men. I have told some of those suffrage ladies of London and of Washington that we are in advance of their most determined feminism. They will come to it. More women than men in Europe will bring it there." Her long, black lashes touched her cheeks.
It furnishes the opportunity for continued unrivaled intimacy, and its on-going not only strengthens the life together, but makes it pregnant with the forces that lead to character growth. Monogamy is therefore a preference, usually so much a matter of course as to seem the natural way of living. This explains its supremacy among the schemes of human mating.
Polyandry, polygamy, and monogamy, have been general among some animals while among others only one form of mating has been the rule. Strange to say, sex promiscuity is not at all general among the animals, though polygamy is common. The adoption of polygamy is obviously due to one of two things, or possibly, to be more specific, to both.
Thus among the Franks, with whom the practice of monogamy prevailed, a woman was never free; she could not buy or sell or inherit without the permission of those to whom she belonged.
The Definition of Marriage Marriage Among Animals The Predominance of Monogamy The Question of Group Marriage Monogamy a Natural Fact, Not Based on Human Law The Tendency to Place the Form of Marriage Above the Fact of Marriage The History of Marriage Marriage in Ancient Rome Germanic Influence on Marriage Bride-Sale The Ring The Influence of Christianity on Marriage The Great Extent of This Influence The Sacrament of Matrimony Origin and Growth of the Sacramental Conception The Church Made Marriage a Public Act Canon Law Its Sound Core Its Development Its Confusions and Absurdities Peculiarities of English Marriage Law Influence of the Reformation on Marriage The Protestant Conception of Marriage as a Secular Contract The Puritan Reform of Marriage Milton as the Pioneer of Marriage Reform His Views on Divorce The Backward Position of England in Marriage Reform Criticism of the English Divorce Law Traditions of the Canon Law Still Persistent The Question of Damages for Adultery Collusion as a Bar to Divorce Divorce in France, Germany, Austria, Russia, etc.
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