[121] See especially, Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes, ch. vi, vii, ix.

[122] The Religions of Primitive Peoples, pp. 47 ff.

[123] Myth, Ritual and Religions, p. 123.

[124] Les Religions des peuples non civilisés, II, Conclusion.

[125] The Religion of the Semites, 2 ed., pp. 126, 132.

[126] This is the reasoning of Westermarck (Origins of Human Marriage, p. 6).

[127] By sexual communism we do not mean a state of promiscuity where man knows no matrimonial rules: we believe that such a state has never existed. But it has frequently happened that groups of men have been regularly united to one or several women.

[128] See our Suicide, pp. 233 ff.

[129] Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, pp. 129 f.

[130] The Melanesians, p. 123.