The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family - Ch. Letourneau

Abyssinia, The concubinate in, [162]
Monogamy in, [179]
Dissolute morals of women in, [181]
Facility of divorce in, [181]
Cicisbei in, [181]
Divorce in, [232]
Levirate by emasculation in, [265]
Adoption in, [316]
Abyssinian women, Licentious manners of, [51]
Adoption among the Redskins, [291]
in Polynesia, [296]
in Abyssinia, [316]
Adultery in the Middle Ages, [204], [226]
Of, in general, [208]
considered as a theft, [208]
in Melanesia, [209]
in New Caledonia, [209]
in negro Africa, [210]
among the Hottentots, [210]
at the Gaboon, [210]
in Bornou, [211]
at Kaarta, [211]
among the Soulimas, [211]
at Youida, [211]
in Uganda, [211]
in Senegal, [212]
in Abyssinia, [212]
in Polynesia, [212]
in New Zealand, [212]
at Tahiti, [212]
at Noukahiva, [213]
in the American savage, [213]
among the Esquimaux, [213]
among the Redskins, [213]
among the Omahas, [214]
in South America, [214]
in barbarous America, [214]
in ancient Mexico, [215]
in Peru, [215]
in Guatemala, [215]
among the Mongols, [216]
in Thibet, [216]
in China, [216]
in Japan, [217]
in Malaya, [217]
in Egypt, [218]
among the Hebrews, [218]
among the Arabs, [218]
among the Kabyles, [219]
in Persia and India, [220]
in the Greco-Roman world, [222]
at Sparta, [222]
at Athens, [223]
at Rome, [222]-[225]
among the Tcherkesses of the Caucasus, [225]
in barbarous Europe, [225]
among the ancient Saxons, [226]
among the Germans, [226]
in feudal France, [226]
The evolution of, [227]
and Christianity, [245]
Africa, The concubinate in middle, [161]
Adultery in negro, [210]
The family in, [305]
Agathyrses, Promiscuity of the, [40]
Akilisenus, Sacred prostitution in, [46]
Amazons, The so-called age of, [105]
Amblyornis inornata, Love architecture of, [14]
America, Prostitution in central, [156]
Concubinate in, [163]
Familial clan in, [267]
The family in, [274]
Amorous combats of sticklebacks, [10]
Analis crystellatus, Amorous combats of, [11]
Andamanites, Promiscuity of, [43]
Prostitution of girls amongst the, [58]
Animals, Love among, [10]
Amorous preferences of, [17]
Grossness of the male among, [18]
Durable pairing among, [18]
Marriage and the family among, [20]
Matriarchate among, [21]
Patriarchate among, [21]
Divers types of sexual association among, [21]
Marriage among, [21]
Inferior, have not maternal love, [21]
Various forms of sexual association among, [26]
The family among, [26]
Shortness of love for the young among, [31]
Variation of the matrimonial type among, [35]
Divers types of marriage among, [35]
Ansarians, Religious promiscuity of, [43]
Anses, Promiscuity of, [41]
Anthropophagy, Familial, of the Redskins, [26]
Ants, Originality of Republics of, [23]
Workers, ancestral forms, [23]
Arabs, Fraternal polyandry of the ancient, [39]
Loan of wife among the, [52]
Temporary marriages among, [68]
Causes of polyandry of the, [82]
Polyandry of ancient, [82]
Infanticide of daughters among the ancient, [83]
Caïs, legend of infanticide, [83]
Community of wives among the, [84]
Fraternal polyandry of the, [84]
Term-marriage among the, [85]
Patriarchal marriage among the, [86]
Marriage by capture among the, [99]
Polygamy of the, [139]
Concubinate among the, [161]
Adultery among the, [218]
Repudiation among the, [237], [239]
Widowhood among the, [259]
Areoïs in Polynesia, [61]
Aryas, Polygamy among Vedic, [135], [150]
Infanticide among, [150]
Aryomania, [134]
Association, Singular forms of sexual, [56]
Assyria, Concubinate in, [165]
Athens, Dotal marriage in, [120]
Prostitution at, [156]
Adultery at, [222]
Widowhood at, [261]
Attica, Density of population in, [198]
Australia, Licentious morals of young girls in, [50]
Rape in, [90]
Capture of women in, [90]
Loan of wife in, [123]
Familial clan in, [261], [270]
Communal marriage in, [270], [272]
Fraternity of clan in, [271]
Totem, amongst the Kamilaroi of, [273]
Communal marriage transitory in, [273]
Maternal family in, [274]
Australians, Law of amorous battle among the, [58]
Avesta, Marriage in the, [191]
Avunculate, The, among the Naïrs, [311]

Babylon, Hetaïrism at, [45]
Religious prostitution at, [45]
Battas, Monogamic tendencies of, [134]
Battle, Law of, among vertebrates, [16]
Law of, [11]
Amorous, among the Analis cristellatus, [11]
of blue herons, [12]
of Canadian geese, [12]
of gallinaceæ, [12]
of grouse, [12]
of Tetras urogallus, [12]
of Tetras umbellus, [13]
Bees, Republic of, [23]
Workers, ancestral forms, [23]
Matriarchate of, [24]
Death of Queen of, [24]
Berbers, The family amongst, [327]
Meaning of the word, [328]
The maternal family amongst, [328]
Birds, Love amongst, [11]
Æsthetic tournaments of, [13]
Love dances of, [13]
Love parades of, [13]
Intentional love parades of, [13]
Cours d’amour of, [13]
Decorated nests of humming, [14]
Preliminaries abridged with old, [15]
Females of certain, stronger than males, [15]
Males more ardent, [15]
Amorous attempts of males of, [15]
more delicate in love than other vertebrates, [15]
Amorous selection among the females of, [17]
Monogamy among, [27]
Fickle monogamy of certain, [28]
Amorous fancies of certain, [28]
The family amongst, [29]
Absence of paternal love amongst certain males of, [29]
Polygamous, often devoid of paternal love, [30]
Paternal love developed among many, [30]
Shortness of love for the young amongst, [31]
Births, Sexual relation of, and marriage, [73]
Sexual relation of, [74]
Bitches, Amorous preferences of, [18]
Blackcock, Amorous battles of, [12]
Bochimans, Loan of woman among the, [58]

Californian Indians, Promiscuity of, [43]
Celibacy, Disadvantages of, according to A. Bertillon, [349]
Celibates comprise the waste of the population, [350]
Celts, Warlike rape among the, [93]
Ceylon, Polyandry in, [78]
Child marriages in Rome, [198]
China, Primitive promiscuity in, [42]
Marriage by capture in, [116]
Prostitution in, [156]
Concubinate in, [164]
Monogamy in, [183]
Marriage by purchase in, [183]
Submission of woman in, [185]
Adultery in, [216]
Repudiation in, [245]
Widowhood in, [255]
Widowhood of brides in, [255]
The family in, [322]
Family nomenclature in, [323]
Trace of fraternal marriage in, [323]
Traces of familial clan in, [324]
The paternal family in, [324]
Fictitious kinship in, [324]
Chlamydera maculata, Love bowers of, [14]
Chorda dorsalis, [6]
Chromis paterfamilias, Paternal love of, [24]
Civilisation depraves certain birds, [25]
Clan, Familial, in America, [267]
Familial, in Australia, [267], [270]
Fraternity of, in Australia, [271]
Exogamy of, among the Redskins, [275]
Duties of, among the Redskins, [275]
Common house of the, among the Redskins, [275]
The, of the Pueblos, [277]
Communism in the Redskin, [278]
The familial, and its evolution, [285]
among the Redskins, [285]
and the family, [301]
“Social cellule,” [301]
Familial, and the family, [303]
Traces of the familial, in China, [323]
Traces of communal, among the Hebrews, [326]
Traces of ancient, among the Kabyles, [328]
Not found in Persia, [330]
Vestiges of ancient, in India, [334]
Primitive, at Rome, [334]
Primitive, in Greece, [334]
Primitive, in Ireland, [338]
Clergy, The concubinate among ancient Catholic, [168]
Clergymen, Sexual relation of births among, [75]
Coemptio at Rome, [201]
Communism in the Redskin clan, [278]
From, to individualism, [347]
Concubinage in general, [154]
Concubinage and prostitution, [154]
Various forms of, [160]
in Europe, [168]
Absence of, in Kabylie, [169]
Evolution of, [169]
and morality, [170]
Concubinate, [160]
among the Hebrews, [161]
among the Arabs, [161]
in primitive Greece, [161]
in modern Peru, [162]
in Livonia, [162]
in middle Africa, [162]
in Abyssinia, [162]
in Central America, [163]
in ancient Mexico, [163]
in Mongolia, [164]
in China, [164]
in ancient Assyria, [165]
at Mecca, [165]
in ancient Persia, [166]
in Greece, [166]
at Rome, [166]
among the Catholic clergy, [168]
Concubine bought by labour of wife among Zulus, [125]
offered by wife at Fiji, [124]
Confarreatio at Rome, [201]
Conjugation, [4]
among algæ, [4]
Conservation of species, [20]
Coquetry among insects, [10]
The law of, [10]
among butterflies, [10]
among fishes, [10]
among vertebrates, [11]
Couvade, [316]
in New Mexico, [316]
among the Redskins, [317]
among the Abipones, [317]
among the Galibis, [317]
in California, [318]
in South America, [318]
among the Tartars, [318]
in Bengal, [318]
among the Celts, [318]
among the Thracians, [318]
among the Scythians, [318]
in Corsica, [318]
in the Tibarenede, [318]
in Europe of to-day, [318]
Reason of the, [319]
Crete, Sodomy in, [63]
Culage, Droit de, [48]
Cynicism, Erotic, in India, [40]
of the Massagetes, [40]

Debauchery, Savage, and that of civilised peoples, [72]
Decency, Rules of, among Redskins, [290]
Defloration, Religious, in Cambodia, [47]
Maternal, with the Saccalaves, [67]
in India, [67]
Divorce, Facility of, in Abyssinia, [181]
in savage countries, [228]
among the Bongos, [229]
among the Soulimas, [229]
among the Fantees, [230]
in Polynesia, [230]
in the Caroline Islands, [230]
among the Moxos, [231]
in Abyssinia, [232]
among the Arabs, [238]
in ancient Peru, [240]
in lamaic Thibet, [240]
among the Mongols, [241]
among the Hebrews, [242]
in Greece, [243]
at Rome, [244]
and repudiation, [228]
among barbarous peoples, [232]
condemned by Christianity, [245]
The evolution of, [247]
and Christianity, [247]
among the Germans, [246]
among the ancient Irish, [246]
Modern, [247]
Increase in number of, in Europe, [357]
Dogs, Sexual coarseness of, [18]
Dower and its results in France, [352]
Duck, Love at first sight in a wild, [28]

Egypt, Polygamy in, [149]
Royal incest in, [66]
Monogamy in ancient, [175]
Pretended gynecocracy in ancient, [176], [177]
Adultery in, [218]
The maternal family in, [308]
The paternal family in, [308]
Emasculation in Abyssinia, [265]
Endogamy in New Zealand, [294]
in Bengal, [315]
Incestuous, in Persia, [330]
Esquimaux, Licentious morals of, [58]
Letting of wives among the, [58]
Sodomy among the, [58]
Marriage by capture among the, [94]
Etruscans, The maternal family among the, [336]
Europe, Increase of illegitimate births in, [169]
Exogamy in Bengal, [315]
of the clan among the Redskins, [276]
at Samoa, [294]

Family, Rôle of the male in the animal, [21]
Maternal, amongst the animals, [21]
amongst the mammifers, [25]
amongst the animals, [29]
Maternal, amongst the Naïrs, [81]
Maternal, at Rome, [202], [233]
in Melanesia, [268], [335]
Origin of the, [267]
Maternal, in Australia, [274]
in America, [274]
Maternal, among the Redskins, [278]
Origin and evolution of the, [284]
Maternal, and the matriarchate, [282]
among the Omahas, [287]
among the Redskins, [287]
among the Iroquois Senecas, [287]
Nomenclature of, among the Redskins, [288]
Evolution of the, among the Redskins, [292]
Genesis of the paternal family among the, [292]
The paternal, among the Incas, [293]
Maternal, in Peru, [293]
Paternal, in Peru, [293]
Paternal, in Mexico, [293]
in Polynesia, [294]
Nomenclature of the, at Hawaii, [295]
Genesis of the maternal, at Hawaii, [295]
Genesis of the paternal, in Polynesia, [295]
among the Mongols, [296]
among the Tamils, [296]
and the clan, [301]
The maternal, [303]
and the familial clan, [303]
Genesis of the uterine, [301]
in Africa, [305]
The maternal, In Kaffirland, [305]
among the Fantees, [305]
in eastern Africa, [306]
among the Nubians, [307]
in Egypt, [307]
The paternal, in Dahomey, [305]
The maternal, in Africa, [305]
The maternal, in Madagascar, [307]
The paternal, in Egypt, [308]
in Malaya, [309]
among the Naïrs, [311]
among the aborigines of Bengal, [313]
The maternal, in Bengal, [313]
The paternal, in Bengal, [314]
The primitive, [320]
in civilised countries, [322]
in China, [322]
in Japan, [323]
The paternal, in China, [323]
among the Semites, [325]
Traces of the maternal, among the Hebrews, [326]
The maternal, in Phœnicia, [327]
among the Berbers, [327]
The maternal, among the Berbers, [327]
in Persia, [330]
in India, [332]
The patriarchal, in Vedic India, [332]
The maternal, in India, [333]
The maternal, among the Tamils, [334]
The Greco-Roman, [334]
The maternal, in Greece, [335]
The maternal, in Etruria, [336]
Genesis of the paternal, in Greece, [336]
Evolution of the, at Rome, [347]
in barbarous Europe, [338]
The paternal, in barbarous Europe, [339]
The maternal, in Germany, [339]
in the past, present, and future, [341]
in the past, [341]
Stages of the, according to L. Morgan, [347]
Actual state of the, [349]
Father, The potestas of, at Rome, [199]
Fecundation, [4]
among superior animals, [7]
Feudality, Polyandric, in Malabar, [311]
Filiation, Maternal, among the Touaregs, [179]
Fishes, Paternal love in certain, [24]
Coquetry in, [10]
France, Prostitution in mediæval, [160]
Adultery in feudal, [226]
Repudiation in feudal, [246]
Late marriages in, [352]
Malthusianism in, [352]
Dowry and its results on marriage in, [352]
Disproportionate marriages in, [323]

Gallinaceæ, Amorous combats of, [12]
Vertigo of love in, [27]
Gasterosteus leiurus, Paternal love of, [25]
Gauls, Polygamy of, [135]
Geese of Canada, Amorous battles of, [12]
Generation by budding, [4]
by division, [4]
a product of nutrition, [4]
among animals, [18]
by ovulation, [5]
by conjugation, [4]
the aim of life, [5]
in the cochineal, [5]
Evolution of, [5]
in the paramœcia, [6]
Essential phenomenon of, [6]
Gens in Greece, [335]
at Rome, [334]
Germans, Polygamy of, [135]
The maternal family among the, [339]
The paternal family among the, [339]
Laws of succession among the, [339]
Marriage by purchase among the, [204]
Subjection of women among the, [204]
Adultery among the, [225]
Repudiation among the, [246]
Divorce among the, [246]
Widowhood among the, [262]
Girls, Prostitution of, among the Andamanites, [58]
Prostitution of, in Polynesia, [59]
married by the father in India, [192]
Marriage of little, in India, [193]
Gymnastic exercises of naked, in Sparta, [195]
Marriage of little, at Rome, [198]
Conjugal sale of little, [107]
married by the grandmother at Boussa, [112]
Free conjugal choice of, at Nicaragua, [115]
Consent of the, in Mussulman marriage, [144]
How, inherit in India, [334]
Greece, Loan of wife in ancient, [53]
Sodomy in, [63]
Marriage by capture in, [100]
Concubinate in primitive, [161]
Concubinate in, [166]
Subjection of women in, [195]
Hetaïræ in, [166]
Subjection of women in, [194]
Marriage in ancient, [194]
Dotal marriage in, [196]
Evolution of marriage in, [197]
Adultery in, [222]
Repudiation in, [243]
Divorce in, [243]
The primitive clan in, [334]
The maternal family in, [335]
The gens in, [335]
Genesis of the paternal family in, [336]
Greeks, Promiscuity of the ancient, [41]
Guaranis, Qualities exacted of the husband among the, [115]
Gynecocracy according to Bachofen, [172]
Pretended, in ancient Egypt, [175]
Pretended, among the Touaregs, [179]

Hawaii, Kinship by classes in, [294]
Familial nomenclature at, [295]
Genesis of the maternal family in, [294]
Hebrews, Concubinate among the, [161]
Marriage among the, [189]
Monogamy among the, [189]
Virginity among the, [190]
Levirate among the, [190]
Adultery among the, [218]
Divorce among the, [242]
Repudiation among the, [242]
Widowhood among the, [259]
The levirate among the, [263]
Laws of succession among the, [326]
Traces of communal clans among the, [326]
Herons, Amorous battles of blue, [12]
Hetaïræ in Greece, [166]
Hetaïrism, [45]
No primitive, [45]
at Babylon, [45]
Hiring out of wives in Polynesia, [60]
Humming-birds, Decorated nests of, [14]
Husbands, Brutality of, at Gaboon, [125]
Jealousy of, unknown in Africa, [128]
Duties of Mussulman, [145]
Rights of punishment of Kabyle, [147]
Manus of, at Rome, [200]

Icterus pecoris, Promiscuity of the, [26]
Immodesty, Primitive, [56]
Immorality, Primitive sexual, [56]
Incas, Polygamy of the, [148]
Incest permitted among various American peoples, [65]
permitted among the Karens, [66]
among the Parthians, [66]
in ancient Persia, [66]
among the Scythians, [66]
Royal, in Egypt, [66]
of the Incas, [66]
in ancient Ireland, [66]
Royal, in Siam, [66]
in Bhootan, [133]
among the Malagasies, [309]
Horror of, in Kabylie, [309]
India, Primitive promiscuity in, [42]
Religious prostitution in, [46]
Marriage by capture in, [93]
Polygamy in Brahmanic, [151]
Prostitution in, [159]
Polygamy among the aborigines of, [135]
Monogamic tendencies in the aborigines of, [133]
Repudiation in, [242]
Widowhood in, [256]
Mitigated monogamy in, [191]
Inferiority of women in, [191]
Daughter married by the father in, [192]
Marriage by purchase in, [192]
Prohibitions to marriage in, [192]
Subjection of woman in, [192]
Marriage of little girls in, [193]
Adultery in, [220]
The levirate in, [263]
The family in, [332]
The patriarchal family in Vedic, [332]
The patriarchate in, [332]
Primogeniture in, [333]
Paternity by suggestion in, [333]
How daughters inherit in, [333]
The maternal family in, [334]
Vestiges of ancient clans in, [334]
Individualism has succeeded to communism, [347]
Infanticide committed by male mammifers, [34]
of girls among the ancient Arabs, [83]
Legend of Caïs, [83]
The paternal right of, in Polynesia, [113]
among the Vedic Aryans, [150]
Innovators, Fate of, [359]
Insects, Maternal prescience of, [22]
Coquetry amongst, [10]
Ireland, The primitive clan in, [338]
Irish, Promiscuity of the ancient, [41]
Incest among the ancient, [66]
Temporary marriages among the, [246]
Divorce among the ancient, [246]