 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1877 - 586 sidor
...when the Turanian system of consanguinity was formed. They have now disappeared although the systern remains. These groups must have gradually declined,...itself in an increase of intelligence and of numbers. appear. Exceptional cases undoubtedly occurred where usages would permit the privilege ; but it failed... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1907 - 600 sidor
...ridiculed so constantly by their associates that they voluntarily separated rather than face the prejudice. death. When wives came to be acquired by purchase...disappear. Exceptional cases undoubtedly occurred where usages would permit the privilege; but it failed to become general until the syndyasmian family... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1907 - 586 sidor
...society under the gentes, the way was prepared for the appearance of the syndyasmian family. — "v The influence of the new practice, which brought unrelated...itself in an increase of intelligence and of numbers. appear. Exceptional cases undoubtedly occurred where usages would permit the privilege ; but it failed... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1909 - 598 sidor
...the coalescence of diverse stocks which has exercised great influence upon human development. WTien two advancing tribes, with strong mental and physical...disappear. Exceptional cases undoubtedly occurred where usages would permit the privilege; but it failed to become general until the syndyasmian family... | |
 | Martin Ottenheimer - 1996 - 194 sidor
...produced by exogamy provided the impetus for humans to move along the road of progress. In Morgan's words: The influence of the new practice, which brought unrelated...would assert itself in an increase of intelligence and numbers. ([1877] 1958:468) By inference, those groups that did not adopt exogamy but continued the... | |
 | Marvin Harris - 2001 - 414 sidor
...stock physically and mentally. . . . When two advancing tribes ... are blended into one people . . . the new skull and brain would widen and lengthen to the sum of the capabilities of both.' (Engels, 1972 [1884]:1 n) When it came to explaining why primitive sexual communism (an imaginary stage... | |
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The influence of the new practice, which brought unrelated persons into the marriage relation, must have given a remarkable impulse to society. It tended to create a more vigorous stock physically and mentally. There is a gain by accretion in the coalescence... 