[Footnote 262:  Thomson, New Zealand, Vol.  I, p. 164.]

[Footnote 263:  Shooter, The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country, p. 102.]

[Footnote 264:  Fresh Discoveries at Nineveh and Researches at Babylon:  Supplement.]

[Footnote 265:  Maine, Popular Government, p. 132.]

[Footnote 266:  Ibid., p. 134.]

[Footnote 267:  Smith, Village Life in China, p. 99.]

[Footnote 268:  Ibid., p. 95.]

[Footnote 269:  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.]

[Footnote 270:  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.]

[Footnote 271:  A.E.  Crawley, “Sexual Taboo,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol.  XXIV, p. 233.]

[Footnote 272:  Loc. cit., p. 227.]

[Footnote 273:  Ibid., pp. 123-25.]

[Footnote 274:  Danks, “Marriage Customs of the New Britain Group,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol.  XVII, p. 284.]

[Footnote 275:  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.]

[Footnote 276:  Williams, The Middle Kingdom, Vol.  I, p. 786.]

[Footnote 277:  Cf. pp. 223ff. of this volume.]

[Footnote 278:  The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans, (Edited) by Hamilton Holt, pp. 100ff.

This peasant woman represents the true female type, and the American women in the scene represent the adventitious type of woman.  The frail and clinging type is an adjustment to the tastes of man, produced partly by custom and partly by breeding.  But in so far as the selection of frail women by men of the upper classes has contributed to the production of a frail or so-called “feminine” type in these classes, this applies to the males as well as the females of these classes.  And there is, in fact, a more or less marked tendency to “feminism” apparent among the men and women of the “better classes.”  If we want to breed for mind, we can do so, but we must breed on better principles than beauty and docility.]

[Footnote 279:  Ploss, Das Weib, 2 Auf., Vol.  I, p. 46.]

INDEX

A

  Abnormalities, 27. 
  Abstraction, in lower races, 267. 
  Adams, 115. 
  Adolescence, 115. 
  Adoption, 82, 88. 
  Adventuress, 239. 
  Aesthetic life and sex-susceptibility, 120. 
  Agriculture:  and woman, 136;
    as man’s work, 145.