[261] _Ibid._, 646, 647. But McLennan meets this difficulty by insisting that wife-stealing, among polyandrous peoples would lead to polygyny on the part of the most successful. This would also explain the inconsistency alleged by SPENCER (648) that polygyny and polyandry sometimes coexist, as among Fuegians, Caribo, Eskimo, Warrens, Hottentots, and the ancient Britons. See MCLENNAN, _Studies_, I, 145, 146; and _cf._ POST, _Familienrecht_, 62. [262] SPENCER, _op. cit._, I, 649. [263] _Primitive Family_, 132. Other objections are brought forward by this able writer. "It has been suggested that the motive for the murder of female infants is the fear of becoming the object of the predatory instincts of other tribes; whence we must conclude that the tribe which keeps its women alive is tolerably strong; those tribes which lack women cannot, therefore, obtain them by violence to any great extent. It also seems to be a strange thing to kill the female infants from a dread of being exposed to attack, and at the same time to seek to increase the number of women by carrying them off by violence from other tribes."--_Ibid._, 132. [264] SPENCER, _op. cit._, I, 644. [265] MCLENNAN, _Studies_, I, 78-80, 124, 142-45, 147 ff.; II, 57 ff. _Cf._ his article on "Exogamy and Endogamy," _Fortnightly Review_, XXI, 884 ff., where he seems to waver somewhat in his conclusions on this point. Such are some of the results gained simply from an examination of the reasoning of McLennan. They have been here enumerated, not only because they afford an excellent illustration of the extreme complexity of social problems, but also because they may warn us against the perils of hasty speculation. It is not merely in matters of detail that the doctrine of the horde and promiscuity has met with resistance. Its very foundations have recently been powerfully assaulted by the adherents of a totally different view of the origin and development of the human family. How the phenomena of marriage and kinship will appear when seen in a new light, we shall next try to discover. CHAPTER III THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY