Before the flood tide of immigration in the period beginning about 1880 brought to America so many young, unmarried women, intermarriages were more infrequent than in the later time.
It will be noted that in some of the States and Territories where the Scandinavians are few and where it is notorious that they are thoroly mingled with the general population, the proportion of intermarriages is not a low one.
They were prohibited from contracting marriages with the Christians, from acquiring Christian slaves, and from holding public offices; such of their children as were born of intermarriages were to be forcibly baptized (589).
The reason urged was that in many countries where Jews (and Mahometans) wore the ordinary costume, intermarriages took place between the Jews and the Christians.
Intermarriages between Jews and Christians occurred quite as frequently in Spain as in Gaul.
They lived on the best of terms with the people of the country, and intermarriages even occurred between Jews and Christians.
Intermarriages had taken place in the higher ranks, alliances had been formed, and Saxon influences in matters such as land tenure and Church government had been sensibly felt beyond the Severn and the Dee.
Even by the Talmud intermarriages were allowed, because the nations of Europe were not considered idolaters.
The ancient Hindu law furnishes no guide on the subject, because under the ancient law the intermarriagesof persons of different castes, even the highest, though they were considered undesirable, were recognized as legal.
In spite of the romance of Pocahontas, the intermarriages of the two races in the Virginian region seem not to have been very common or very important.
No sooner had he assumed the ecclesiastical function, than the men of strong convictions who condemned intermarriages with the surrounding peoples brought their complaints before him.
Intermarriages took place among the nobility, and to such an extent, that there were few families of note but had their connexions; and many became possessed of lands under both governments.
The Bedawi speaks with the greatest contempt of the FellAch, and rarely, if ever, do intermarriages occur, as both sides would consider themselves degraded by the alliance.
The Rajas of Ramgarh and Jashpur are members of this tribe, who have nearly succeeded in obliterating their Turanian traits by successive intermarriages with Aryan families.
Before the arrival of Hindu colonies, they had no idea of cast; but some of the tribes confined their marriages to their own nation, while others admitted of intermarriages with strangers.
The three first named being long extinct in the male line, it is needless to enter further into detail than is necessary to show their intermarriages with other Mackenzie families.
There were also several intermarriages between them and the families of Grant of Freuchy and Grant of Easter Elchies and Edenvillie.
Again, as was inevitable from the nature of the case, intermarriages were common between the two races.
Intermarriages had become frequent among them;[1] and these proved the fruitful cause of religious dissensions.
Instead of becoming blond, as the Finns, they have approached the brunette type of southern Europe, probably in part through their frequentintermarriages with the Circassian and other Mohammedan peoples of the Caucasus.
That chapter is mainly occupied with a singularly minute and circumstantial history of the murders, intrigues, wars, and intermarriages of the Lagidae and Seleucidae.
Further intermarriages with the Hydes[488] are recorded.
We do not intend, however, that the copulation between them shall take place in a promiscuous and arbitrary manner: we shall establish laws to regulate the intermarriages and breeding.
Constant intercourse and frequent intermarriagessoon abolished all distinctions of national origin.
This led, of course, to constant intermarriages between members of the different clans of which a nation was composed, thus binding the whole nation together.
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