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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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brother becomes also the legal spouse of the younger
twain. The children of this woman are the objects
of a common affection, and when one of her sons
shall have grown to full manhood, and shall have
married a wife chosen by his parents, he in turn
shall come into a primacy of power over the patri-
mony, his elders reserving just enough to prolong
their habitual comfort—not enough to prevent the
establishment of a new generation. And thus, in-
definitely, the cycle repeats itself; not less regularly,
not less blindly, obeying nature's demand for new
individuals, than elsewhere in more favoured lands,
by other forms.
Should some rare good fortune befall, then the
eldest brother may choose another wife, even a
third. And so it may be, if the first wife have no
children, though the property be not increased.
And even when the number of wives is equal to the
number of husbands, in polyandrous marriage, it is
thought that the fertility of the women is less than
if living in the monogamic relation, thus securing in
part, that restraint upon population which is most
fully developed when, as is often the case, the three
brothers have but one wife.
Chinese officials reported to M. Grenard that
female births are to male as seven to eight. If this
be true, we have here a second, unconscious effort
to diminish the surplus of unmarried women, which
would result from the one-wife and three-husband
marriage, taken as the type of polyandric unions.
But it is by no means the universal type. Equal
numbers of husbands and wives in one family are
frequently seen. The women not disposed of in
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