[160] _Cf._, regarding group-marriage, the writings of Joseph Kehler, more particularly “Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe”--“The Primitive History of Marriage” (Stuttgart, 1897); “Rechtsphilosophie und Naturrecht”--“The Philosophy of Law and Natural Right,” published in Holtzendorff-Kohler’s “Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft,” pp. 27-36 (Leipzig, 1902); “Die Gruppenehe”--“Group-Marriage,” in “Aus Kultur und Leben,” pp. 22-29 (Berlin, 1904); finally the chapter on “Group-Marriage” by Schurtz (_op. cit._). [A quite modern instance of group-marriage was the Oneida community, “a league of two hundred persons to regard their children as ‘common.’” For an account of the Oneida experiment see Noyes, “A History of American Socialisms.”--TRANSLATOR.] [161] J. J. Bachofen, “Das Mutterrecht”--“Matriarchy” (Stuttgart, 1861). [162] Ludwig Stein, “Die Anfänge der Kultur”--“The Beginnings of Civilization”--pp. 106, 107. [163] Eduard von Mayer, “Die Lebensgesetze der Kultur”--“The Vital Laws of Civilization”--p. 210. [164] G. F. W. Hegel, “Fundamental Outlines of the Philosophy of Law, or Natural Rights and Political Science in Outline,” edited by Eduard Gans, second edition, p. 218 (Berlin, 1840). [165] That is to say, it is not sufficient to replace the father-right by the mother-right, as, for example, Ruth Bré demands (“The Children of the State, or the Mother-Right?” Leipzig, 1904). [166] There is a most apposite remark in one of George Meredith’s novels. He imagines that an Oriental vizier (from a Mohammedan country) is visiting our “Christian” capital, and late one evening, after a dinner-party at a distinguished house, walks homeward by way of Piccadilly. He asks, and is told, who are the numerous ladies walking the streets at that late hour. “_I perceive_” said the vizier, “_that monogamic society has a decent visage and a hideous rear_.”--TRANSLATOR. [167] M. Nordau, “The Conventional Lies of our Civilization,” pp. 263-317 (Leipzig, 1884). [168] Georg Hirth estimates the percentage of marriages of convenience as even higher--viz., 90 per cent. _Cf._ his “Ways to Love,” p. 607. [169] _Cf._ my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. i., pp. 165-174; vol. ii., pp. 190, 191, 208, 209, 363, 364. [170] Schopenhauer’s Collected Works, edited by E. Grisebach, vol. ii., p. 1337 (Leipzig, 1905). [171] Ernest Stiedenroth, “Psychologie zur Erklärung der Seelenerscheinungen,” pp. 224, 225 (Berlin, 1825). [172] Max Nordau, “Conventional Lies,” p. 305.