Selection, sexual, Darwin’s theory of, 18; compared with artificial selection, 36; processes of, reversed, 82; lower characters eliminated through, 90 Sexes, origin of, 11, 14-15; numerical proportion of, 39, 43, 52 Slavery, 145; its extent in the nineteenth century, 369 Socialism, 390 Socrates, 334-335 Solon, his legislation, 320-321; his character, 320, 322 Spartan women, their power, 298, 308; they controlled the land, 298; they resisted the laws of Lycurgus, 299; they originated the exercises of the youth, 300, 302; their dress, 303, 305; their influence, 303, 304, 310, 361 Spartans, their government, 156; democratic character of their institutions, 252-253; their senate, 286; their morality, 302, 304; adultery unknown among them, 307, 316; election of senators among the, 309, 310 Stoic philosophy, the, its principles, 334, 347-348; its effect on Roman law, 348 Struggles for mates, 22-23, 64 Survival of the fittest, 388 Symbols in marriage ceremonies, among the Circassians, 171; in Abyssinia, 172; in Arabia, 172; in Scandinavia, Wales, and Ireland, 173; in Central Africa, 175; in Italy, 176; as explained by McLennan, 216 Sympathy, development of, 67 T Thargelia, 337 Themistia, 334 Themistocles, 342 Theseus, 260, 271; united the Attic tribes, 262 Timotheus, 342 Tribe, the, its formation, 126, 153; growth of the governmental idea within, 247 Tribes named after women, 273 Tyrannies established among the Greeks, 263 U Union of tribes in Athens, 262 Unisexual forms, development of, 15 V Variability denotes low organization, 36 Variations in the human body, 47-48 Vital force, expenditure of, 32 W Wife-capture, among the Israelites, 164; among the Arabians, 177; its extent, 177; McLennan’s theory to account for, 215; Lubbock’s theory of, 224-227; among the Spartans, 310 Women, in excess of men, 52; of Greenland, 54; their intuitions, 78; their apparel, 80; of Australia, 111; among the Kaffirs, 111, 146, 187; of early German tribes, 112; of Nubia, 111; of Sumatra, 112; of Tahiti, 116; among the Fijians, 117, 186; among the North American Indians, 139; head of the family, 139, 144, 154; of Arabia, 178-179, 188; of Rome, 178, 190; in Japan, 185; among the Abipones, 186; among the Greeks, 272, 276, 277, 279, 283; under the ancient Roman law, 350; under the middle Roman law, 352-354 Y Yavanas, 318 Z Zeno, 334 Zulus, marriage customs among, 173 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sexes in Science and History, by Eliza Burt Gamble