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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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The Biological Origin of Marriage 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.

Polyandry 73-88

I. Sexual Proportion of Births: its Influence on Marriage.
II. Ethnography of Polyandry.
III. Polyandry in Ancient Arabia.
IV. Polyandry in General.