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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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That even this ingeniously flexible system has not
been able to prevent the considerable development
of prostitution goes without saying. That is a bye-
product of all systems, or rather it is the fixed and
necessary product of forces planted in us when we
were indiscriminate as are the unpropertied beasts,
and even more indiscriminate than we shall be when
socialism shall have swept away private property and
marriage with it. The nested wild bird, the laired
lion, and the housed man—those who have individ-
ually built or pre-empted houses for themselves and
their young, these are mated. But the man-pro-
tected barnyard fowl, the unsheltered grazing herds,
and the state-protected man, these are or will be
carelessly indiscriminate. And as we never find a
human society that is not in transition, bearing
marks of dead processes, so we never find a perfectly
symmetrical, definite marriage-system, or property-
system (these two are wedded), but we must ever find
irregularities, exceptions, vermiform appendices.
Our European-American world is one of private
property, tempered by state ownership and adven-
ture to wild land. Its marriage-system is one of
monogamy, tempered by adultery, with adventure
into the indiscriminate relation.
It is not improbable that other influences than
those just described have conspired to the establish-
ment of polyandry; as, for example, the need of
protecting women and children when separated for
long periods from that portion of the male popula-
tion which must be occupied in caring for distant
flocks. If one of three could remain, having at
heart the supreme interest of the Family, which en-
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