The ecology of mating systems in hypergynous dowry societies

Abstract

When the famine in Shansi was over, and I began to consider the reasons of it, I felt I must study the causes of human suffering, not only in China but in all the world. In pondering Western civilization I felt that its advantage over Chinese civilization was due to the fact that it sought to discover the workings of God in Nature, and to apply the laws of Nature for the service of mankind. This was in obedience to God's command to Adam to have dominion over all things. In ap plying the laws of science to the needs of man, Western nations had made marvellous inventions that were little less wonderful than miracles.