[3208] Goguet, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 22.
[3209] Balfour, loc. cit. vol. iii. p. 252.
[3210] Dubois, loc. cit. p. 101. Cf. the myths of the Nishinam (Powers, loc. cit. p. 339), Thlinkets (Dall, loc. cit. p. 421), Nicaraguans (Waitz, loc. cit. vol. iv. p. 280), Caroline Islanders (ibid., vol. v. pt. ii. p. 136).
[3211] As, for example, by Post, ‘Geschlechtsgenossenschaft,’ p. 27, and Spencer, ‘The Principles of Sociology,’ vol. i. pp. 664, et seq.
[3212] Darwin, ‘The Descent of Man,’ vol. i. p. 334; vol. ii. pp. 394, et seq. Mr. Reade thinks (loc. cit. p. 214) we may infer that Gorillas are polygamous, like stags, cocks, pheasants, and other animals that battle for mates, from the fact that a trustworthy informant had seen two Gorillas fighting. But it is not only polygamous animals that fight for females.
[3213] Hartmann, loc. cit. p. 214.
[3214] Among the Bechuanas, says Mr. Conder (‘Jour. Anthr. Inst.,’ vol. xvi. p. 86), a man formerly became richer the more wives he had, because they used to hoe his mealies; ‘now, however, ploughs have been introduced, and the men take pride in driving a team of eight oxen in a plough.'
[3215] Spencer, ‘The Principles of Sociology,’ vol. i. p. 752.
[3216] Le Bon, ‘La Civilisation des Arabes,’ p. 424.
[3217] Letourneau, ‘Sociology,’ p. 378.