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To prove this, I must quote a passage from Das Mutterrecht, as representing, or at least suggesting, the opinions of those who have argued most strongly against his theory. When recapitulating the facts and arguments in favour of accepting the supremacy of women, he makes this suggestive statement “The first state in all cases was that of hetaïrism.
Das Mutterrecht, pp. 18-19. The italics in the passage are mine, for they bear directly on what I shall afterwards have to prove: that mother-right was not the first stage in the history of the human family; that its existence is not inconsistent with the patriarchal theory.
Dionysus and Bellerophon strove together passionately, yet without gaining a decisive victory, until Apollo, with calm superiority, finally became the conqueror, and the father gained the power that before had belonged to the mother.” Das Mutterrecht, pp. 73, 85. Compare also McLennan, Studies, p. 322, and Starcke, The Primitive Family in its Origin and Development.
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