THE EVOLUTION

OF MARRIAGE

AND OF THE FAMILY

CH. LETOURNEAU,

General Secretary to the Anthropological Society of Paris, and Professor in the School of Anthropology.

LONDON
WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE
PATERNOSTER ROW
1891.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
The Biological Origin of Marriage		PAGE 1-19
I.	The True Place of Man in the Animal Kingdom.
II.	Reproduction.
III.	Rut and Love.
IV.	Love of Animals.
CHAPTER II.
Marriage and the Family amongst Animals		20-36
I.	The Preservation of Species.
II.	Marriage and the Rearing of the Young among Animals.
III.	The Family amongst Animals.
CHAPTER III.
Promiscuity		37-55
I.	Has there been a Stage of Promiscuity?
II.	Cases of Human Promiscuity.
III.	Hetaïrism.
CHAPTER IV.
Some Singular Forms of Sexual Association		56-72
I.	Primitive Sexual Immorality.
II.	Some Strange Forms of Marriage.
CHAPTER V.
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