Notes
CHAPTER ONE
[1] The first state of primitive man must have been the mere aggregation. The right of the mother was therefore most natural; upon the relationship of mother and child the remotest conception of the family was based.—Wilkin, p. 869.
[2] Where a god and goddess are worshiped together they are not husband and wife, but mother and son. Neither does the god take pre-eminence, but the mother or goddess. This condition dates from the earliest days of society, when marriage in our sense of the word was unknown, and when kinship and inheritance were in the female line. The Babylonian Ishtur of the Izdobar legend is a deity of this type.—W. Robertson Smith: Kinship in Ancient Arabia.
[3] Dr. Th. Achelis.—Article on Ethnology: (The Open Court).
[4] In a country where she is the head of the family, where she decides the descent and inheritance of her children, both in regard to property and place in society in such a community, she certainly cannot be the servant of her husband, but at least must be his equal if not in many respects his superior.—Wilkin.
[5] Motherright.
[6] Lubbuck.—Pre-Historic Times and Origin of Civilization. Wilkin.
[7] Among many people the father at birth of a child, especially a son, loses his name and takes the one his child gets. Taylor—Primitive Culture. Also see Wilkin.