[493] Domenget, Institutes de Gaius, sec. 58.
[494] Lea, History of Sacerdotal Celibacy (Philadelphia, 1867), p. 296.
[495] Id., ibid. pp. 274, 292, 422.
[496] Id., ibid. p. 324.
[497] M. Block, Europe Politique et Sociale, pp. 204, 205.
[498] Hanoteau et Letourneux, La Kabylie, t. ii. p. 148.
CHAPTER XI.
PRIMITIVE MONOGAMY.
I. The Monogamy of Inferior Races.—The causes of monogamy—The gynecocratic theory of Bachofen—Inferior monogamic races—Races which are polygamic, although superior—Co-existence of monogamy and polygamy.
II. Monogamy in the Ancient States of Central America.—Monogamy of the common people in Mexico and Peru—Civil marriage in Peru.
III. Monogamy in Ancient Egypt.—Gynecocracy in Egypt—Its raison d’être.