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Primitive Paternity or the Myth of Supernatural Birth in Relation to the History of the Family (1909 | |
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This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. The beliefs, customs & institutions of tribes in a low degree of civilization are our only clue to those of a more archaic condition no longer in existence. They are evolved from them & are the outgrowth of ideas which underlay them. When we find a belief, a custom or an institution, still more when we find a connected series of beliefs, customs & institutions, over spreading the lower culture, we may reasonably infer its root in ideas common to mankind & native to the primitive ancestral soil. The advance of even the most backward from primeval savagery has been so great that a large harvest of these ideas is not to be expected. But, the researches yielded enough, it is hoped, to afford a satisfactory solution of, among others, the problem under consideration in this volume.
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