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"Women are so much better now than formerly that one wife is quite enough." "You have got him well in hand, Mrs. Henderson, but " Morgan began. "But," continued Margaret for him, "you think as things are going that polyandry will have to come in fashion a woman will need more than one husband to support her?" "And I was born too soon," murmured Carmen. "Yes, dear, you'll have to be born again.
The change implied in this proselytism is greater in respect of some social practices than in the abstract principles of religious belief. The polyandry of the Tibetans is in direct contrast with the polygamy of the Moslems, and is far more strictly maintained.
There are no puberty nor menstruation ceremonies. No sexual intercourse is permissible while a woman is pregnant, nor during menstruation, nor during the first three months after childbirth. Cousins may marry. Evidence of polyandry is found among the Duhoi. Eight years previous to my visit on the river Braui lived for six years a woman blian about thirty years old, who had three young husbands.
They would appear also to have had some sort of woman-worship, for they held women in high honour, loved female sovereignty, and practised polyandry that is, each woman had several husbands." "I never heard of such queer folks!" said I. "And what became of them, Sir?" "The Iberians and Celts together," he answered, "made up the people we call Britons.
Among the Guanas the women make their own stipulations with their lovers before marriage, arranging what they are to do in the household. They are also said to decide the conditions of the marriage, whether it is to be monogamous, or if polygamy or polyandry is to be allowed.
It is evident that if we assume that the primitive form of the family was that of a simple pairing monogamy, the burden is laid upon us to show how such different types as polyandry and polygyny arose. Polyandry, or the union of one woman with several men, is a relatively rare form of marriage and the family, found only in certain isolated regions of the world.
Women would not have been thus rendered scarce, and polyandry would not have been practised; for hardly any other cause, except the scarcity of women seems sufficient to break down the natural and widely prevalent feeling of jealousy, and the desire of each male to possess a female for himself.
Much of the polygyny, and polyandry also, which prevails among us to-day is an altogether artificial and unnatural form of polygamy.
It is hardly necessary to point out that civilized societies are now apparently entering upon a third stage, in which there will be relative equality given to the male and the female elements that go to make up the family. Polyandry. We must notice now the various forms of marriage by which the family has been constituted among different peoples and in different ages.
"Un adolescent aime toutes les femmes" say the French, and it is generally accepted that man is by nature more inclined to polygamy than woman is towards polyandry, still man and woman are both swayed and motived by the same elemental jealousy that is born of fear of losing something valued; the emotion which Descartes has so well defined as "une espèce de crainte qui se rapport au désir qu'on a de se conserver la possession de quelque bien."
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