ON THE METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
History of human civilization a part of Sociology, p. [1].—Early history based on ethnography, p. [2].—Errors in method, pp. [2], et seq.—How we can from ethnographical facts acquire information regarding the early history of mankind, pp. [3]-6.—Dr. Tylor’s ‘method of investigating the development of institutions,’ pp. [4], et seq.—The causes of social phenomena, p. [5].—What we know about the antiquity of the human race, pp. [5], et seq.—Social survivals, p. [6].—‘Human marriage,’ ibid.
THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE
Tales of the origin of marriage, pp. [8], et seq.—The subject regarded from a scientific point of view, p. [9].—Parental care among Invertebrata, ibid.—The relations of the sexes and parental care among Fishes, p. [10].—Among Reptiles, ibid.—Among Birds, pp. [10], et seq.—Among the lower Mammals, p. [12].—Among the Quadrumana, pp. [12]-14.—Among savage and barbarous races of men, pp. [14]-17.—The father’s place in the family, pp. [15]-19.—Definition of the word marriage, pp. [19], et seq.—Marriage a product of natural selection, pp. [20], et seq.—Marriage rooted in family rather than family in marriage, pp. [22]-24.
A HUMAN PAIRING SEASON IN PRIMITIVE TIMES
Hypotheses as to the periodicity in the sexual life of animals, p. [25].—Every month or season of the year the pairing season of one or another mammalian species, pp. [25], et seq.—The rut not dependent upon any general physiological law, but adapted to the requirement of each species separately, pp. [26], et seq.—Wild species without a definite pairing season, p. [27].—Rutting season among the man-like apes, ibid.—Among our earliest human or half-human progenitors, p. [28].—Periodical increase of the sexual instinct among existing savages, pp. [28]-31.—Among civilized peoples, pp. [31]-33.— The increase of the sexual instinct at the end of spring or in the beginning of summer, probably a survival of an ancient pairing season, pp. [34], et seq.—The winter maximum of conceptions, pp. [35]-37.—Why man is not limited to a particular period of the year in which to court the female, pp. [37], et seq.—Domestic animals without a definite pairing season, p. [38].
THE ANTIQUITY OF HUMAN MARRIAGE