[Footnote 10: Apparently ‘clans’ here = totem kins, Mr. Atkinson seems to think that totem kins kept on being added to the two original ‘phratries.’--A. L.] [Footnote 11: Lubbock, _Origin of Civilisation_, p. 13 _et seq_.] [Footnote 12: _Hlonipa_, to avoid mention of his name, &c.] [Footnote 13: _Origin of Civilisation_, p. 14. Lubbock quoting ‘Report of Select Committee on Aborigines,’ Vict. 1859, p. 73. Tylor, _Early History of Mankind_, p. 288.] [Footnote 14: Among the Veddahs the fact that the avoidance begins after puberty, and in each case in relation to the opposite sex, is evidence that here the sexual feelings are concerned.] [Footnote 15: Tylor, _Early History of Mankind_, p. 291.] [Footnote 16: E. B. Tylor. On a method of investigating the development of institutions: applied to laws of marriage and descent. _J. A. I_. 1889, xviii. No. 3, 245-269.] [Footnote 17: The matter here is highly technical, and must be compared, if it is to be understood, with Mr. Tylor’s essay, cited in the previous note. W stands for Wife, H for Husband, D is Daughter, F is Female, M is Mother, and is also Male! A is Avoidance.--A. L.] CHAPTER VIII THE CLASSIFICATORY SYSTEM The classificatory system.--The author’s theory is the opposite of Mr. Morgan’s, of original brother and sister marriage.--That theory is based on Malayan terms of relationship.--Nephew, niece, and cousin, all named ‘sons and daughters.’--This fact of nomenclature used as an argument for promiscuity.--The author’s theory.--The names for relationship given as regards the group, not the individual.--The names and rules evolved in the respective interests of three generations.--They apply to food as well as to marriage.--Each generation is a strictly defined class.--Terms for relationship indicate, _not kinship_, but relative seniority and rights in relation to the group.--The distinction of age in generations breaks down in practice.--Methods of bilking the letter of the law.--Communal marriage.--Outside suitors and cousinage. --The fact of cousinage unperceived and unnamed.--Cousins are still called brothers and sisters; thus, when a man styles his sister’s son his son, the fact does not prove, as in Mr. Morgan’s theory, that his sister is his wife.--Terms of address between brothers and sisters.--And between members of the same and of different phratries.--These corroborate the author’s theory.--Distinction as to sexual rights yields the classificatory system.--Progress outran recognition and verbal expression.--Errors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. McLennan.--Conclusion.--Note.--’ ‘Group marriage.’