The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1898 - 797 pages |
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The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, Volume 1 Alexander Sutherland Affichage du livre entier - 1898 |
The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, Volume 1 Alexander Sutherland Affichage du livre entier - 1898 |
The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, Volume 1 Alexander Sutherland Affichage du livre entier - 1898 |
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affection Ainu Animal Intelligence animals asserts average barbarian barbarian level become birds Brehm bride Bushmen cannibalism century Cetacea chap chapter chastity civilisation conjugal sympathy custom daughter death describes early eggs emotions enemies England Europe father feeling female fish genera girls gives grade grow growth habits hatched higher Hist hospitals human husband ideal increasing Indian infanticide instinct intelligence killed less lives lower Madagascar Malay races male mammals marriage married marsupials middle barbarians monkeys monogamous monotremes moral mother natural Negritos nest never number of offspring observed oviduct pair parental period placentalia polygamy population pouch practice progress prosimians purchase races rarely reached regard reptile rodents Roman savage says secure seen sexual Sirenia slaughter social sympathy sort species stage sympathetic Tatar tells tender tion tribe true ungulates union viviparous warfare wherein whole wife wives woman women young
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Page 258 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 386 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth...
Page 192 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Page 369 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 405 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 458 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Page 397 - I have been unable to ascertain motive for the good, or account for the callousness of conscience with which they perpetrate the bad. After long observation I came to the conclusion that they are just such a strange mixture of good and evil as men are everywhere else. There is not among them...
Page 394 - In manners the Javans are easy and courteous, and respectful even to timidity ; they have a great sense of propriety, and are never rude or abrupt. In their deportment they are pliant and graceful, the people of condition carrying with them a considerable air of fashion, and receiving the gaze of the curious without being at all disconcerted. In their delivery they are in general very circumspect and even slow, though not deficient in animation...
Page 397 - ... four times a day. On leaving Linyanti I handed him over to the charge of his chief, Sekeletu, who feeds his servants very well. On the other hand, I have seen instances in which both men and women have taken up little orphans and carefully reared them as their own children. By a selection of cases of either kind, it would not be difficult to make these people appear excessively good or uncommonly bad.