Systems of Consanguinity

Abstract

IN NATURE, vol. xi. p. 401, I find a notice of the third edition of Sir John Lubbock's valuable work on the “Origin of Civilisation,” in which the following paragraph occurs:— “The facts with which he deals in this chapter [a new one in that volume] have been taken from the voluminous work of the American author, Mr. Morgan; but Sir John Lubbock, putting aside Mr. Morgan's theorising, has submitted a view of them of his own. This, in the main, and as far as it goes, we think, he has made out.”