The Evolution of Marriage

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This simulated rape is punished by a simulation of vengeance. The fugitives are pursued ; they arc even ill-treated, but short of being actually killed. Their punish- ment is simply an act of obedience to ancestral customs. When all is concluded, and the fugitive couple reinstated among their people, the woman belongs to the man who has carried her off; he is no longer obliged to offer her to the visitors of his clan, as old Australian hospitality * Fison and Howitt, quoted by Giraud-Teulon, fi...ls, in Origines du Mariage el de la Familie, pp. 86-88.
i8 2 74 THE E VOL UTlOM OF MARRIA GE required;^ she belongs to him alone. Sometimes the ravisher legalises his right of sole proprietor by first giving notice to his friends, and offering them the use of his wife, after which he can keep her to himself.^ In proportion as tribal marriage was being trans- formed, owing to the breaches made in it by individual instinct, the consanguineous family was gradually arising in place of the collective and fictitious family.


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