ABSTRACT
The systems of consanguinity and affinity of six of the great families of mankind, the Aryan, Semitic, and Uralian, the Ganowanian, Turanian and Malayan have now been presented, together with a series of Tables illustrative of the forms of each. The original system of these families, or rather their present system in its origin, was purely descriptive, as it appears from the Sanskritic when it ceased to be a living form, and as it is still exemplified by the Celtic and the Scandinavian forms in the Aryan family, by the Arabic in the Semitic family, and by the Esthonian in the Uralian. The systems of relationship of these families are identical. The classificatory system becomes, in these several particulars, arbitrary, artificial and complicated. The descriptive system can be readily shown to be in accordance with the nature of descents, as they now exist, with marriage between single pairs.
