[46] DELBRÜCK, "Das Mutterrecht bei den Indogermanen," _Preussiche Jahrbücher_, XCVI, 14-27, a clear summary of the results of recent research. _Cf._ his _Die Indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen_ (Leipzig, 1889). According to HELLWALD, _Die mensch. Familie_, 453-80, especially 459, 460, patriarchalism was fully established at the earliest dawn of Indic history; but there are nevertheless traces of earlier mother-right. [47] SCHRADER, _Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte_ (2d ed.), 536 ff.; JEVONS'S Translation, 369 ff.; LEIST, _Alt-arisches Jus Gentium_, 51-58. MAX MÜLLER declares that "whether in unknown times the Aryas ever passed through that metrocratic stage in which the children and all family property belong to the mother, and fathers have no recognized position whatever in the family, we can neither assert nor deny."--_Biographies of Words_, xvii. [48] WAKE, _Marriage and Kinship_, 359 ff., especially 382, where a thorough and detailed criticism of McLennan's theory is given. [49] BERNHÖFT, "Die Principien des eur. Familienrechts," _ZVR._, IX, 418, 419, 437 ff. See also his _Römische Königszeit_, 202 ff.; and his articles in _ZVR._, VIII, 11; IV., 227 ff.; and compare DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht_, 91-94, 108. STARCKE, _op. cit._, 101-18, also gives a searching examination of the theory of McLennan and the earlier views of Dargun, rejecting their conclusions. [50] _Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht_, 108. [51] DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Raubehe_, 13. _Cf._ the _Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht_, 95, 117 ff., _passim_. [52] DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Vaterrecht_, 41, 42, 4 ff., 28, 29-42, 118, _passim_. [53] DARGUN, _op. cit._, 41.