eding season. _Chapters on Human
Love_, by Geoffrey Mortimer (W.M. Gallichan), pp. 13-14.

[45] _Evolution of Sex_, pp. 625-626. _Chapters on Human Love_, p. 14.

[46] _Problems of Sex_, by J.A. Thomson and Prof. Patrick Geddes, p.
20.

[47] _Evolution of Sex_, pp. 270-272, 295.

[48] _Natural Science_, Nov. 1894, quoted by Havelock Ellis,
_Psychology of Sex_, Vol. III. p. 30.

[49] _Evolution of Sex_, p. 265.

CONTENTS OF CHAPTER V

COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

I.--_Among the Birds and Mammals_

Courtship and marriage among birds and mammals--Every form of
association similar to human marriage--A high standard of
love-morality among birds--Monogamy, polygamy, and
polyandry--Cases of absolute profligate
promiscuity--Suggestions of all the sexual sins of
humanity--The phenomena of courtship--The law of
battle--Battles of mammals and male gallinaceae--The frenzy of
love--Where supremacy in love is gained by force the males
become stronger and better armed than the females--Importance
of this--Gentler ways of wooing--AEsthetic seductions--Courteous
duels--The note of joy in love among birds--Affectionate
partnerships lasting for life--Frequency of monogamy among
birds--Co-operation of both sexes in forming the home and
caring for the young--The amatory dances of birds--Significance
of dancing--Numerous illustrations--The use of song and
decorative plumage--Musical seduction--AEsthetic
constructions--The extraordinary power of sex-hunger--General
propositions.

II.--_Further Examples of Courtship, Marriage and the Family among
Birds_

Darwin's theory of sexual-selection--Objections to this by Wallace
and others--An explanation--The true object of courtship--The
sexual passion the origin of social growth--A rough outline of
society already established in the animal kingdom--The maternal
and the paternal family--The former the most frequent--The
importance of the female--Difference between the secondary
sexual characters of the male and the female--Doubt of the
accepted view--Need for a further examination--Cases among
birds in which the female equals or even exceeds the male in
size and strength--Beauty tests of brilliant plumage--Numerous
examples of almost identical likeness between the sexes--This
similarity in plumage oc