INDEX
- A
- Abipones, their customs, 148;
- independence of women among, 186
- Abrotonum, 342
- Adoption, among early races, 144, 145, 324;
- symbol of, 146, 147
- Affection in primitive groups, 126
- Agamemnon, 256
- Agnation, 351
- Ainos, 49
- Altruism, its development in the female, 17, 67, 86;
- its development in society, 124, 140
- Amazonianism, 208
- Andromache, 283
- Arabia, organization of society in, 129, 177;
- marriage in, 179, 181, 182
- Arawaks, their customs, 147, 174
- Archonship, 259;
- its close, 264
- Areta, 332
- Aristocracy, its growth among the Greeks, 251, 265-267
- Aristophanes, his picture of female philosophers, 338
- Aspasia, preceptress of Socrates, 334;
- her genius, her teachings, 337-338
- Assembly of the people, 156;
- development of the, 251;
- its duties, 259;
- its disappearance in Greece, 264;
- its powers among the Spartans, 293
- Atavism, 52
- Athene, her decision concerning paternity, 272
- Athenian men, their policy, 285;
- ashamed of their name, 318;
- their wives Carians, 319;
- their moral degradation, 323-326
- Athenian women, imported foreigners, 319;
- their degradation, 323;
- their division into classes324;
- decline of influence among, 329;
- their reputed licentiousness, 339
- Auletrides, 325
- Australians, 230
- B
- Babylonian women, 234, 340
- Basileus, germ of present king, 156;
- does not correspond to modern monarch, 156, 255, 257;
- elected by a constituency, 253;
- abolition of the office of, 259
- Birds, their courtships, 20-21;
- aversion of females for certain males among, 20;
- the female among, chooses her mate, 20, 23, 25, 108;
- efforts of the male to please the female among, 21;
- eagerness of the male among, 21, 26, 30;
- powers of the female among, 27;
- inheritance of the female among, 29;
- inheritance of the male among, 29;
- constancy of the female among, 108
- Burgesses, 272
- C
- Captives, not enslaved in early groups, 145;
- as sexual slaves, 163, 276
- Cecrops, 262, 272, 329, 362
- Chastity of early races, 110, 113, 114, 306
- Clisthenes, 249, 261
- Codrus, 249, 259, 264
- Colour-blindness, 55
- Common law, the, woman’s position under, 357
- Communal marriage, 225
- Concubines, 327
- Couvade, la, its extent, 148
- Crates, 334
- Cuckoos, character of, 69
- Cynic philosophy, the, its principles, 332
- D
- Danaūs, daughters of, 274
- Deme, establishment of, 249, 260
- Democracy, of early races, 127;
- of the early Greeks, 250-251;
- decay of, 264-265, 267;
- in ancient Italy, 313
- Descent, traced through men, 128, 135, 281;
- in Arabia, 131;
- in Greece, 133
- Descent, traced through women, 141, 142, 157, 222;
- its universality, 228, 311;
- among the Iroquois Indians, 249;
- law of, 253;
- in Lycia, 310
- Desires, primary, of the male, 20
- Dicteriades, 327
- Differentiation, 8, 10, 16, 65
- Diseases of women, 61;
- not constitutional, 54
- Dorians, their conservatism, 285
- Draco, 266;
- his laws, 322
- E
- Early Christianity, 361
- Ecclesia, 251
- Ecclesiasticism, its effect on the position of women, 356-357
- Egoism, its development in males, 17, 86;
- not pronounced among earliest races, 125, 140;
- its development in later ages, 155
- England in the nineteenth century, 370
- Epicureans, 333
- Eupatrids, their cupidity, 264
- Evolution, individual and historic, 15
- F
- Family, the, not the basis of the gens, 246
- Female, conditions which produce the, 39
- Fijians, their customs, 116-117;
- parental affection among, 118
- Foreign women, as wives, 188, 192, 219;
- as concubines, 283, 327, 348
- France, marriage customs in, 172;
- in the nineteenth century, 370
- G
- Gaius, 353
- Genealogies traced through fathers, 271
- Gentile organization, the, universality of, 124;
- principles established by, 124;
- democratic character of, 127, 138, 139, 152;
- unity of, 128;
- government under, 137, 152, 156, 247;
- property belonging to, 140;
- altruistic character of, 140, 157;
- in Greece, 245;
- its decay, 260;
- its final overthrow, 261;
- in Athens, 262
- Glycera, 341
- Government, development of, 248
- Greek society, its construction, 243, 245
- H
- Hairy covering for the body, 49-51
- Hand, the female, 59
- Hercules, tradition of, 273
- Hetairai, a term of reproach, 329;
- their renown, 330;
- origin of the word, 338;
- honoured citizens, 341;
- judged by masculine standards, 344
- Hindu law, 352
- I
- Infanticide, McLennan’s theory of, 217;
- not practised by early races, 220;
- Sir J. Lubbock’s theory of, 226-227
- Insects, nutrition determines sex, 40;
- males appear first, 42
- Iroquois Indians, 137
- J
- Justinian Code, 357, 359
- L
- Lamia, 326
- Lance, symbol of property, 181, 312
- Leontium, 334
- Life, origin of, 4;
- earliest forms hermaphrodite, 11, 15
- Lydian women, 340
- Lysicles, 336
- M
- Magna Charta, 369
- Man, shorter-lived than woman,
- 45, 53;
- imperfections in the organization of, 55-59;
- superior to woman, Darwin’s theory, 75;
- assumes the duties of maternity, 147;
- superior to woman according to edict of Apollo, 199
- Marriage, origin of, 161;
- in India, 163;
- Racshasa, 163;
- in Arabia, 164, 179, 181, 182;
- by Confarreatio and Usus, 164, 351;
- among the Israelites, 165;
- in Afghanistan, 165;
- in Greenland, 170;
- in Nubia, 171;
- in Sparta, 173;
- sadica, 179;
- beena, 180;
- motă, 181;
- ba’al, 181, 188, 193;
- laws of Mohammed, 183, 188;
- in Japan, 185;
- in Rome, 189;
- of the future, 399;
- rise of the present system of, 197;
- ceremonies among the Spartans, 310
- Matter, conservation of, 6
- Mother-in-law, the, her aversion to sons-in-law, 174, 236
- N
- Names, adoption of, 144
- Nemeas, 341
- O
- Ontogeny, 7
- Oracles of the Greeks controlled by women, 309
- Organization of society, 123
- P
- Pangenesis, 29
- Parthenogenesis, 38, 40
- Paternal affection, absence of, among lower orders, 69, 71;
- not a primary character, 71;
- absence of, among lower races, 149;
- absence of, among the Romans, 189, 191
- Pericles, 335
- Perpetual tutelage of women, 350
- Political society, establishment of, 249, 260-261
- Polyandry, not practised among lower orders, 107
- Polygamy, rise of, 106, 189
- Poverty of the masses in Greece, 266
- Primitive races, promiscuity among, 107, 115, 211;
- chastity of, 108, 110, 112, 116, 306, 307;
- morality of, 112, 115, 118;
- humanity of, 145
- Property, control of, 140, 221;
- inheritance of, 141;
- in early Greece, 250
- Protection of women in early groups, 112, 117, 146, 178, 186
- Q
- Quadrupeds, constancy of the female among, 24-25, 106-107;
- unions of, not left to chance, 25
- R
- Religion of Mohammed, 183
- Religious idea, 150, 211
- Reversion, 48, 52
- Rights of Roman fathers, 191, 313
- Roman family, the, 312, 349, 352
- Roman lawyers, 352-353
- Roman society, its constitution, 243
- Roman women, 178, 189, 314
- Rotifera, 38
- S
- Sabine women, capture of, 312
- St. Paul, 361
- Selection, natural, 7
- Selection, sexual, Darwin’s theory of, 18;
- compared
- with artificial selection, 36;
- processes of, reversed, 82;
- lower characters eliminated through, 90
- Sexes, origin of, 11, 14-15;
- numerical proportion of, 39, 43, 52
- Slavery, 145;
- its extent in the nineteenth century, 369
- Socialism, 390
- Socrates, 334-335
- Solon, his legislation, 320-321;
- his character, 320, 322
- Spartan women, their power, 298, 308;
- they controlled the land, 298;
- they resisted the laws of Lycurgus, 299;
- they originated the exercises of the youth, 300, 302;
- their dress, 303, 305;
- their influence, 303, 304, 310, 361
- Spartans, their government, 156;
- democratic character of their institutions, 252-253;
- their senate, 286;
- their morality, 302, 304;
- adultery unknown among them, 307, 316;
- election of senators among the, 309, 310
- Stoic philosophy, the, its principles, 334, 347-348;
- its effect on Roman law, 348
- Struggles for mates, 22-23, 64
- Survival of the fittest, 388
- Symbols in marriage ceremonies, among the Circassians, 171;
- in Abyssinia, 172;
- in Arabia, 172;
- in Scandinavia, Wales, and Ireland, 173;
- in Central Africa, 175;
- in Italy, 176;
- as explained by McLennan, 216
- Sympathy, development of, 67
- T
- Thargelia, 337
- Themistia, 334
- Themistocles, 342
- Theseus, 260, 271;
- united the Attic tribes, 262
- Timotheus, 342
- Tribe, the, its formation, 126, 153;
- growth of the governmental idea within, 247
- Tribes named after women, 273
- Tyrannies established among the Greeks, 263
- U
- Union of tribes in Athens, 262
- Unisexual forms, development of, 15
- V
- Variability denotes low organization, 36
- Variations in the human body, 47-48
- Vital force, expenditure of, 32
- W
- Wife-capture, among the Israelites, 164;
- among the Arabians, 177;
- its extent, 177;
- McLennan’s theory to account for, 215;
- Lubbock’s
- theory of, 224-227;
- among the Spartans, 310
- Women, in excess of men, 52;
- of Greenland, 54;
- their intuitions, 78;
- their apparel, 80;
- of Australia, 111;
- among the Kaffirs, 111, 146, 187;
- of early German tribes, 112;
- of Nubia, 111;
- of Sumatra, 112;
- of Tahiti, 116;
- among the Fijians, 117, 186;
- among the North American Indians, 139;
- head of the family, 139, 144, 154;
- of Arabia, 178-179, 188;
- of Rome, 178, 190;
- in Japan, 185;
- among the Abipones, 186;
- among the Greeks, 272, 276, 277, 279, 283;
- under the ancient Roman law, 350;
- under the middle Roman law, 352-354
- Y
- Yavanas, 318
- Z
- Zeno, 334
- Zulus, marriage customs among, 173