[8] “Thus we see that woman’s liberty did not begin at the upper, but at the lower end of civilization. Woman in those remote times, was endowed with and enjoyed rights that are denied to her but too completely in the higher phase of civilization. This subject has a very important aspect, i.e. the position of woman to man, the place she holds in society, her condition in regard to her private and public (political) rights.”
[9] “Among the monogamous classic nations of antiquity, the maternal deity was worshiped with religious ceremonies.”
[10] We find the mother’s right exclusively together with a well-established monogamy.—Bachofen.
[11] Documentary History of New York.
[12] Alexander: History of Women.
[13] History of the United States, Vol. I.
[14] Cushing.
[15] “What is most to be considered in this respect are the political rights which women in time of the Matriarchate shared with the men. They had indeed the right to vote in public assemblies still exercised not very long ago among the Basques in the Spanish provinces.”
[16] That the Veddas are the aborigines of Ceylon may be assumed from the fact that the highly civilized Singalese admit them to be of noble rank. Pre-Historic Times.—Lubbuck.