Having now made the muddle complete, he could give himself up to the profoundest inquiries as to which of his two absurd classes was the older exogamy or endogamy.

• 他这样把问题更加彻底混淆以后，便埋头于最深沉的研究中，去探讨在他的两个荒诞无稽的范畴中，究竟哪一种较古：是外婚还是内婚。