Mating, marriage, and the status of woman / by James Corin.

  • Corin, James.
Date:
1910
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    was instituted to bring into human life greater order, greater well doing and happi- ness” is wholly contrary to the data of zoology, of anthropology, and even of philology : it should be sufficient to whisper to him the word ” wife.” The brutes without marriage can regulate their family affairs, often shew sexual restraint for eleven months of a year, and do not make their females slaves. Man, with and by marriage, made his females into slaves who must tolerate his lust. Milder treatment of wives came not through marriage but in spite of marriage, as the true mating instinct—that of monauto- nomixy—began to reassert itself under civilization. Yet to the enslaving of his females man largely owes his success, though that is so contrary to the accepted dicta about slavery. But the ability to make others work, and to profit by their work, is a factor in all human success : it matters not whether the workers be called slaves, or servants, or labourers—there is little real distinction. Man WcLS thus able to make woman his slave because having little jealousy he was willing to combine for sexual raids ; yet these raids would have been useless but for the physiological fact that he wais able to