[Footnote 29: _History of Human Marriage_, p. 476.] [Footnote 30: _Goehlert, Ueber die Vererbung der Haarfarben bei den Pferden._ Quoted by Westermarck, p. 476.] Westermarck continues, quoting from Düsing:[31] "Among the Jews, many of whom marry cousins, there is a remarkable excess of male births. In country districts, where, as we have seen, comparatively more boys are born than in towns, marriage more frequently takes place between kinsfolk. It is for a similar reason that illegitimate unions show a tendency to produce female births." [Footnote 31: _Die Regulierung des Geschlechtsverhaeltnisses_, pp. 243-244.] Westermarck comments: "The evidence for the correctness of his deduction is, then, exceedingly scanty--if, indeed it can be called evidence. Nevertheless, I think his main conclusion holds good. Independently of his reasoning I had come to exactly the same result in a purely inductive way." He then quotes a number of travelers to the effect that marriage between members of different races produce a phenomenal excess of female births. When we consider the extraordinary proficiency in fiction attained by many travelers in strange lands, we are forced to the belief that Westermarck based his own conclusion on still more scanty evidence. The statistics given by Dr. Düsing for Prussia[32] are as follows: TABLE IX. ------------------------------------------------------------ | | | Other | |Evangelical.| Catholic. | Christians.| Jews. ------------------------------------------------------------ Male births | 4,015,634 | 2,273,708 | 12,283 | 69,901 Female births| 3,775,010 | 2,136,295 | 11,548 | 64,939 Masculinity | 106.374 | 106.435 | 106.36 | 107.64 ------------------------------------------------------------ [Footnote 32: _Das Geschlechtsverhaeltnis der Geburten in Preussen_, pp. 24-25; in _Staatswissenschaftliche Studien_, vol. iii.] and for mixed marriages: TABLE X. -------------------------------------------------------------- |Evangelical |Catholic and| Other | Jews and |and Catholic.|Evangelical.| mixed. |Christians. -------------------------------------------------------------- Male births | 157,755 | 189,733 | 4.464 | 2,958 Female births| 149,205 | 179,505 | 4.254 | 2,850 Masculinity | 105.73 | 105.70 | 104.9 | 103.8 --------------------------------------------------------------