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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A REJOINDER TO MR. McLENNAK In Part III of the Principles of Sociology, dealing with Domestic Institutions, I had occasion to criticize certain of the views set forth by Mr. McLennan in his Primitive Marriage. Sometime after, in two articles in The Fortnightly Review, the last of which appeared in June, 1877, he replied to my criticisms. To prevent prolongation of the controversy, the Editor of The Fortnightly Review sent me a proof of this last article; with the result that what I had to say in answer was appended. As Mr. McLennan's essays above named have, along with others, been put into a permanent form, it seems fit that permanence should be .given to my response. The few pages occupied run as follows: ? Forms of family produced by descent in the male line, are habitually characterized by a law of succession which gives the sons of the eldest precedence over his brothers. Contrariwise, forms of family in which descent in the female line persists, wholly or partially, because paternity is unsettled or but partially settled, are characterized by a law of succession under which brothers takes precedence of sons. Hence an institution which requires a younger brother to beget an heir for an elder brother who dies without one, and which thus carries to an extreme the claims of sons versus the claims of brothers, seems like a result of a family system characterized by established descent in the male line. Mr. McLennan, however, considers this peculiar institution to be derived from a form of family in which, from in- definiteness of paternity, male kinship in the descending line is imperfectly established. As he interprets the matter, cause and consequence stand thus: ? On every view, then, he says, the succession of brothers in preference to sons must be accepted as a re...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217904629 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217904629 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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