[48] Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 359 ff., especially 382, where a thorough and detailed criticism of McLennan's theory is given.
[49] Bernhöft, "Die Principien des eur. Familienrechts," ZVR., IX, 418, 419, 437 ff. See also his Römische Königszeit, 202 ff.; and his articles in ZVR., VIII, 11; IV., 227 ff.; and compare Dargun, Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 91-94, 108. Starcke, op. cit., 101-18, also gives a searching examination of the theory of McLennan and the earlier views of Dargun, rejecting their conclusions.
[50] Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 108.
[51] Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 13. Cf. the Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 95, 117 ff., passim.
[52] Dargun, Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 41, 42, 4 ff., 28, 29-42, 118, passim.
[53] Dargun, op. cit., 41.
[54] Ibid., 3 ff., 28, 36, 86 ff., 155, passim. As remarked in the text, the whole work is concerned with the thesis in question. The distinction is also made in the Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 18.
[55] See Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 86-116, for his criticism of the linguistic argument.
[56] Ibid., 91, 92. Cf. a similar protest against conclusions as to the primitive Aryans derived from Greek and Roman sources, ibid., 116; and Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 14.
[57] Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht, 69, denies that women have ever attained political headship; but (113, 114) declares, though the researches of the philologists make it probable that the Aryans lived under the rule of house-fathers, that neither this fact nor any other circumstance tells against the view that mother-right coexisted from antiquity; while, in a still more remote period, this may have implied matriarchal power in the family; but of such a matriarchate no proofs are presented.