The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

by Ch. Letourneau

It was not without difficulty that man succeeded so far. A long period of time was required to disentangle the skein of family relationships; and fictitious kinship continued to be confounded with real kinship for many ages. Change came only by a slow evolution, which we will now proceed to study.

FOOTNOTES:

[873] Lubbock, Orig. Civil., p. 9.

[874] Lang, Aborigines of Australia.—Eyre, Discoveries in Central Australia, vol. ii. p. 385.

[875] Grey’s Journal, vol. ii. ch. ii.

[876] Tylor, Researches in Early History of Mankind, vol. i. ch. ix.

[877] Giraud-Teulon, père, Origine de la Famille, p. 44.

[878] Folklore, etc., of the Australian Aborigines (Adelaide, 1879), pp. 28, 50, 57, 58, 65, 67, 87, 89, 92, 93.—Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, 215.

[879] Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, 50.

[880] Id., ibid.