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Westermarck has not sufficiently considered this aspect of the question, and, if I mistake not, it is this confusion of mother-descent with promiscuity which explains his attitude towards the maternal system, and his failure to recognise its favourable influence on the status of women. In his opinion this system of tracing descent does not materially affect the relative power of the two sexes.
Edward Westermarck and apparently of Professor Eugen Mogk. It may be called the purificatory theory. Obviously the two theories postulate two very different conceptions of the fire which plays the principal part in the rites.
The learned modern Ethnologists, however, will generally have none of this latter idea. For other absurd Sunday taboos see Westermarck on The Moral Ideas, vol. ii, p. 289. For a tracing of this taboo from useless superstition to practical utility see Hastings's Encycl. Religion and Ethics, art. "The Sabbath."
A curious privilege given to women is recorded: “The women have an unlimited privilege of striking, fining, or if it be done on the spot, killing any man who makes his way into their bathing places.” Semper, Die Palau-Inseln, p. 68, cited by Westermarck op. cit., p. 211.
See Delitzsch, Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 341. So far as the domestic animals are concerned, it is true that they throw off their young in the spring. See Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, pp. 27 seq. Allatu. I.e., of the dead person. Ishtar. See p. 475. Vorstellungen, pp. 6-8. Some instrument is mentioned. IVR. 30, no. 3, obverse 23-35.
Westermarck in his "History of Human Marriage" shows that in the early tribe there was no inhibition against the marriage of blood relations; that the restriction then was against the members of the tribe that used one tent; these might or might not be blood relations.
F. Paulsen, System of Ethics, book III, chap. XI. L. Stephen, Science of Ethics, chap, V, sec. IV. C. F. Dole, Ethics of Progress, part VII, chaps, I, II. E. L. Cabot, Everyday Ethics, chaps. IV. E. Westermarck, Origin and Development of Moral Ideas, chap. XXXI. K. F. Gerould, in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 112, p. 454. Ethics of Journalism: H. Holt, Commercialism and Journalism.
We should not be content with past achievement, with the contemporary standards of our fellows. If we give our keenest thought and our earnest effort, there is no knowing what noble heights of morality we may be helping the future to attain. Dewey and Tufts, Ethics, chap. IV. Hobhouse, op. cit, part II, chaps. II, VIII. Westermarck, op. cit, chap. VII. Sutherland, op. cit, vol. II, chaps.
The facts put forth in support of the theory do not justify the conclusion, Westermarck says, that promiscuity has ever been a general practice among a single people and much less that it was the primitive state.
Sociologists still dispute whether the clan arose by the cohesion of families or the family arose within the clan. Such evidence as is afforded by prehistoric remains is entirely in favour of the opinion of Professor Westermarck, that the family preceded the larger group.
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