[371] Maine, Early Law and Custom, 228.
[372] Darwin, op. cit., II, 103, 104, accepts Huth's view (Marriage of Near Kin), that there is no "instinctive feeling in man against incest any more than in gregarious animals."
[373] This is the view of Morgan, Ancient Society, 512-14; also of Maine, op. cit., 221 ff.; Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, 117, 138 ff.; Westermarck, op. cit., 363.
[374] Starcke, op. cit., 212, 223, 224.
[375] In this part of his argument Starcke's generalizations are scarcely sustained by the evidence. See the criticism of Cunow, Australneger, 180-84, who urges the well-known fact that many of the lowest peoples are not acquainted with wife-purchase at all; and even where wife-purchase exists, it might seem to be of as much advantage to a father to marry his daughter to her brother as, for instance, to allow the son to obtain a wife by offering his sister in exchange.
[376] Starcke, op. cit., 233, 229, 230.
[377] Ibid., 227, 228.
[378] Westermarck, op. cit., chaps. xiv, xv, xvi, 290-382. These chapters should be read in the light of the results obtained in those on "Law of Similarity," the "Means of Attraction," "Sexual Selection," and the "Liberty of Choice."
[379] For the evidence of incestuous marriages, see Westermarck, op. cit., 292 ff., 331 ff.; Starcke, op. cit., 44, 209 ff.; Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, 636; Giraud-Teulon, Origines, 60 ff.
[380] This may perhaps explain why half-sisters and half-brothers may marry among the Todas where relationship is in the male line: Marshall, A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, 206, 221.