A diffused deficiency in a warlike power is the best attainable evidence that the pre-historic men did not possess that power.' If this axiom be received it is palpably applicable to the marriage-bond of primitive races.
This quote discusses the implications of a lack of warlike power in prehistoric men, linking it to the marriage bonds of primitive races.
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