Principles of Sociology, Band 6

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Appleton, 1893
 

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Seite 671 - proceed to consider it more closely. § 318. He implies that in the earliest stages there were definite marital relations. That which he calls " the infancy of society "—" the situation in which mankind disclose themselves at the dawn of their history; " is a situation in which "'every one exercises jurisdiction over his wives and his children,
Seite 552 - that in some Semites the nomadic type had, even in ancient times, become so ingrained as to express itself in the religion. Thus we have the Eechabite injunction—"Neither shall ye build house, nor sow corn, nor plant vineyard, nor have any, but all your days ye shall dwell in tents;" and Mr. EW Robertson points out that— " One of the laws of the ancient
Seite 324 - A member of the family will never kill an animal of the species to which his kobong [animal-namesake] belongs, should he find it asleep; indeed, he always kills it reluctantly, and never without affording it a chance of escape." Joined with this regard for the
Seite 565 - artificial joints; reward and punishment, by which fastened to the seat of the sovereignty every joint and member is moved to perform his duty, are the nerves, that do the same in the body natural;
Seite 365 - O setting sun, As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night, So in his red blood Ca-ssius' day is set; The sun of Home is set!
Seite 54 - evolution, both intellectual and emotional, may be measured by the degree of remoteness from primitive reflex action. The formation of sudden, irreversible conclusions on. the slenderest evidence, is less distant from reflex action than is the formation of deliberate and modifiable conclusions after much evidence has been collected. And similarly, the quick passage of simple emotions into the particular
Seite 436 - the benefit of the society. It has ever to be remembered that great as may be the efforts made for the prosperity of the body politic, yet the claims of the body politic are nothing in themselves, and become something only in so far as they embody the claims of its component individuals.
Seite 706 - among the Clatsops and Chinooks, who live upon fish and roots, which the women are equally expert with the men in procuring, the former have a rank and influence very rarely found among Indians. The females are permitted to speak freely before the men, to whom, indeed, they sometimes address themselves in a tone of authority.
Seite 351 - called Cacatepec, for they said it was their mother." Of the Mexicans Prescott writes:—" A puerile superstition of the Indians regarded these celebrated mountains as gods, and Iztaccihuatl as the wife of her more formidable neighbour," Popocatepetl. Of the Peruvians, who worshipped the snow-mountains, we read that at Potosi
Seite 188 - the mansions of his father the Sun." " When the Mandans die they expect to return to the original seats of their forefathers." In Mangaia " when a man died, his spirit was supposed to return to Avaiki, ie, the ancient home of their ancestors

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