266: [(return)]

Ibid., p. 134.

267: [(return)]

Smith, Village Life in China, p. 99.

268: [(return)]

Ibid., p. 95.

269: [(return)]

On the increase of insanity and feeble-mindedness see R.R. Rentoul, "Proposed Sterilization of Certain Mental Degenerates," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XII, pp. 319ff.

270: [(return)]

It is true that in many parts of the world, among the lower races, woman was treated by the men with a chivalrous respect, due to the prevalence of the maternal system and ideas of sympathetic magic; but she nevertheless did not participate in their activities and interests.

271: [(return)]

A.E. Crawley, "Sexual Taboo," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXIV, p. 233.

272: [(return)]

Loc. cit., p. 227.

273: [(return)]

Ibid., pp. 123-25.

274: [(return)]

Danks, "Marriage Customs of the New Britain Group," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XVII, p. 284.

275: [(return)]

Burrows, "On the Native Races of the Upper Welle District of the Belgian Congo," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, N.S. Vol. I, p. 41.