Ebook The Development of Marriage and Kinship

A general work on the structure of the earliest human societies. This work would have been of the utmost importance, and it is to be hoped that it will not be wholly lost to science. In its absence I may be allowed to bring forward the result of my own enquiries, which go over much the same ground as Dr m'lennan's, although probably he would have rejected many of my conclusions as differing from his own. I have the less hesitation in doing so, as the subjects treated of in the present volume have engaged my attention for many years past, and as the convie tion has been forced upon me that the hypotheses of Dr m'lennan and Dr Morgan, differing so widely from each other as they do, are both fundamentally erroneous.