THE SYNDYASMIAN AND THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILIES.
The Syndyasmian Family.--How Constituted.--Its Characteristics.--Influence upon it of the Gentile Organization.--Propensity to Pair a late Development.--Ancient Society should be Studied where the highest Exemplifications are found.--The Patriarchal Family.--Paternal Power its Essential Characteristic.--Polygamy subordinate.--The Roman Family similar.--Paternal Power unknown in previous Families. 453
This Family comparatively Modern.--The Term Familia.--Family of Ancient Germans.--Of Homeric Greeks.--Of Civilized Greeks.--Seclusion of Wives.--Obligations of Monogamy not respected by the Males.--The Roman Family.--Wives under Power.--Aryan System of Consanguinity.--It came in under Monogamy.--Previous System probably Turanian.--Transition from Turanian into Aryan.--Roman and Arabic Systems of Consanguinity.--Details of the Former.--Present Monogamian Family.--Table of Roman and Arabic Systems. 468
SEQUENCE OF INSTITUTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FAMILY.
Sequence in part Hypothetical.--Relation of these Institutions in the Order of their Origination.--Evidence of their Origination in the Order named.--Hypothesis of Degradation Considered.--The Antiquity of Mankind. 498
Property in the Status of Savagery.--Slow Rate of Progress.--First Rule of Inheritance.--Property Distributed among the Gentiles.--Property in the Lower Status of Barbarism.--Germ of Second Rule of Inheritance.--Distributed among Agnatic Kindred.--Improved Character of Man.--Property in Middle Status.--Rule of Inheritance imperfectly Known.--Agnatic Inheritance Probable. 523
THE THREE RULES OF INHERITANCE--CONTINUED.
Property in the Upper Status of Barbarism.--Slavery.--Tenure of Lands in Grecian Tribes.--Culture of the Period.--Its Brilliancy.--Third Rule of Inheritance.--Exclusively in Children.--Hebrew Tribes.--Rule of Inheritance.--Daughters of Zelophehad.--Property remained in the Phratry, and probably in the Gens.--The Reversion.--Athenian Inheritance.--Exclusively in Children.--The Reversion.--Inheritance remained in the Gens.--Heiresses.--Wills.--Roman Inheritance.--The Reversion.--Property remained in the Gens.--Appearance of Aristocracy.--Property Career of the Human Race.--Unity of Origin of Mankind. 537