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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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indivisibility of property. If the last generalisation
seems hastily put in line with the two preceding and
more obvious principles, I think its truth may be
established by inversion of reasoning in considering
Tibetan conditions.
Suppose a family of three sons, without just now
inquiring into the marriage relations of their parents;
suppose a patrimony of miserly fields, which are
barely sufficient to sustain the family in question,
and suppose this patrimony to be physically difficult
to subdivide; the house and court being obviously
indivisible, the fields practically so by reason of
their small individual areas and their relation to
water supply. Suppose it to be exceedingly diffi-
cult, nay, practically impossible, to have other fields
anywhere within a distance of hundreds of miles.
Suppose, in spite of these untoward conditions, each
of the three brothers to marry him a wife. We may
then postulate as follows: There will be a fight
about the division of floor space; there will be con-
tinued wrangling between the families; there will be
frequent and murder-making adulteries; and there
will be too many children to be fed from the meagre
field, hence child-killing, or fell disease, must cull
the o'er-rich crop. How then shall two objects
be accomplished, that of securing a certain sense of
unity in the conglomerate family and that of dimin-
ishing the number of births? However we might
have ingeniously devised other systems, it remains
that, impelled by the forces just described, the
Tibetans have evolved a custom by which, first,
the property goes into the control of the eldest
brother; second, the wife chosen by this eldest
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