ABSTRACT
When the rustic games in which competing sexes were opposed to each other were superseded by rivalries between societies rich in technical secrets and newly-won prestige, male authorities came into being, and an active hierarchy was evolved from amongst them. But the principle of alternation which presided over the seasonal games did not immediately lose its force. With this principle dualism maintained its rights—even after the social order was no longer founded on simple bipartition, and society was tending to assume the tributary organization which is favourable to the concentration of authority. Thus it was only with difficulty that the authority which the male chiefs had won became the property of a line of princes who, from father to son, transmitted to each other the right to govern by themselves and for their lifetime, the assemblage of forces which make up the world of men and things.
