WOMEN UNDER POLYGAMY
passed out of the region of discussion into full recognition. But this freedom is not that form to which we are accustomed in England. It has its serious obligations among a nation where the intelligentia look upon the love of the sexes "as a holy thing."
The born-amorists, the Don Juans of the race, with their marked polygynic tendencies, form an order sundered by physical and psychic differences from the more contained and parental types. Among the historic amorists are a great number of most distinguished and exceptionally gifted men and women. But the paternal man and the maternal woman, the less erotic type common in all the Northern and Western nations, are, probably, the best types for the propagation of the race.
Both classes have their marked limitations as well as their finer endowments. The born-fathers and mothers of the race are instinctively monogamic. Love may besiege their bosoms with irresistible sway in the early days of marriage, but with the begetting and rearing of children come that intense solicitude for the well-being of offspring and profound parental affection which overpower all errant desires. When passion subsides they remain tender companions, serenely content with family love.
These are the solid bulwark of the monogamic society. No polygynous impulses, no vehement
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