Primitive Love And Love Stories
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, 432) to forty tribes where sisters were disposed of in bunches ; and in all such cases liberty of choice is of course out of the question. Indeed the wide prevalence of so utterly barbarous and selfish a custom shows us vividly how far from the Indian's mind in general was the thought of seriously consulting the choice of girls.
Furthermore, to continue Dr. Brinton's enumeration, "the selection of a wife was often regarded as a concern of the gens rather than of the individual. Among the Huro...ns, for instance, the old women of the gens selected the wives for the young men, and united them with painful uniformity to women several years their senior. " " Thus, " write^ Morgan (L. Of I. , 320), "it often happened that the young warrior at twenty-five was married to a woman of forty, and oftentimes a widow ; while the widower at sixty was joined to a maiden of twenty. " Besides these obstacles to free choice there are several others not referred to by Dr. Brinton, the most important being the custom of wrestling for a wife, and of infant betrothal or very early marriage.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, 432) to forty tribes where sisters were disposed of in bunches ; and in all such cases liberty of choice is of course out of the question. Indeed the wide prevalence of so utterly barbarous and selfish a custom shows us vividly how far from the Indian's mind in general was the thought of seriously consulting the choice of girls.
Furthermore, to continue Dr. Brinton's enumeration, "the selection of a wife was often regarded as a concern of the gens rather than of the individual. Among the Huro...ns, for instance, the old women of the gens selected the wives for the young men, and united them with painful uniformity to women several years their senior. " " Thus, " write^ Morgan (L. Of I. , 320), "it often happened that the young warrior at twenty-five was married to a woman of forty, and oftentimes a widow ; while the widower at sixty was joined to a maiden of twenty. " Besides these obstacles to free choice there are several others not referred to by Dr. Brinton, the most important being the custom of wrestling for a wife, and of infant betrothal or very early marriage.
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