Politics: A Treatise on Government

in another point of view,

wives in common who yet deliver their children to their respective fathers, being guided by their likeness to them. There are also some mares and cows which naturally bring forth their young so like the male, that we can easily distinguish by which of them they were impregnated: such was the mare called Just, in Pharsalia.

which he says it ought to take place; nor has he given any particular directions for putting it in practice. Now I also am willing