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MARRIAGEand social value than the other types* Blonsky in SovietRussia has discussed the two chief types of women (mainlyamong teachers) which he terms the monandric and thewith one man and the other who tends to formpolyandric types, the first only drawn into serious relationshipnumerous relationships with men, either successively orsimultaneously, though of course there are intermediategroups between the two marked types. Blonsky finds thatthe monandric woman, not only individually but socially,tends to be superior to the polyandric woman, who ismore egoistic and assertive and more liable to unduenervosity, while the monandric women, who are twice asnumerous, are more devoted to duty, better balanced,more capable organizers and more successful in social contacts.These conclusions of Blonsky's doubtless have truthfor the average, outside as well as inside Russia, but wemust beware of generalizing too positively,and there arewomen of polyandric type for whom far more is to be saidthan Blonsky seems willing to admit. Exactly the sameconclusions may be applied to men.This is not a matter in which we are called upon to giveadvice. In matters of social morality, individuals arebound to take the responsibility for their own actions.But it is desirable for the psychologist to be able to viewintelligently the psychic reaction occurring in the communitiesof today in which he lives. In this matter weundoubtedly witness a process of change, thoughit isalarmists would make itmuch less extreme than manyout to be.The "polygamy" which some people view today withconsternation is mostly, as some one has improperly termedit, merely a "consecutive polygamy/' due to an increasedtendency to divorce. That is to say, it is simply an enlargementof the familiar monogamy. For the rest it is a recog-[283]