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 recognised rule of society. So valuable had they become, for domestic and sexual purposes, that wars were fought for them, and raids of tribe upon tribe were made for their capture; or they were bought and sold in the open market. The early Aryan tribes purchased their wives, over whom they held the power of life and death.

Nor were things discovered to be much better for women when these wild, warlike tribes of Northern Europe swooped down upon the effete civilisations of Greece and Rome.