The origin and development of the moral ideas

i. 221, 224, 295-297, 307, 308, 380, 427, 579, 580, 585, 668,

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669, 690, 692, 696

Atheism, ii. 643 _sq._

Atonement. See Expiation, Expiatory sacrifice

---- the day (fast) of, i. 65, ii. 311, 312, 316, 357-359. 617

Attempts to commit crimes, i. 200, 241-247, 374

"BAD," analysis of the concept, i. 134

Badger-baiting, ii. 509

Bananas, abstinence from, ii. 321

Banishment, as a punishment, i. 46, 58, 172, 173, 224, 225, 227, 228, 267, 287, 312, 424, 601, ii. 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 74, 123 n. ^1, 331, 424, 425, 452, 475 n. ^10, 478, 525

Baptism, i. 55, 411, 416, 417, 666, ii. 295, 417, 721-723

Barrenness of a wife, human sacrifices offered in cases of, i. 457 _sq._; a cause of polygyny, ii. 388

Bear-baiting, ii. 508-510

Beating, as a religious rite, ii. 294, 357-359

Beef, abstinence from, ii. 327, 330

Bees, prohibition of killing, ii. 490

Beliefs, as subjects of moral judgments, i. 215 _sq._

Benefit of Clergy, i. 491

Benevolence, ch. xxxiii. (ii. 153-185). See Charity, Hospitality

Bestiality, i. 253 _sq._, ii. 409, 749

Birds, defending their nests, ii. 51; paternal care among, ii. 189 _sq._; the duration of conjugal unions among, ii. 192

---- of night, abstinence from eating, ii. 333

---- of prey, prohibition of eating, ii. 321

Blasphemy, ii. 639, 640, 719

Blessings, materialistic conception of, i. 98, 562; pronounced by {839} recipients of gifts, i. 561-565; gods appealed to in, i. 562, 564 _sq._, ii. 686, 731; of strangers, i. 581-584, ii. 446; of parents, i. 621-627; of old persons, i. 626; in salutations, ii. 151

Blood, effusion of, at funerals, i. 26, 27, 476, ii. 544, 545, 547; abstinence from, i. 187, ii. 334 _sq._; as a religious rite, i. 470 _sq._, ii. 294, 557; pollution of, i. 225, 232, 233, 375-382, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2, 262, 714; shedding of, prohibited in sacred places, i. 380, ii. 635; offered to the dead, i. 475 _sq._; drunk or licked in blood-revenge, i. 483 _sq._; as a conductor of curses, i. 586, 587, 591, ii. 69, 118-121, 208, 209, 566, 567, 618-622, 687-689; primitive ideas concerning, i. 664 n. ^1; oaths taken upon, ii. 118-121, 621, 622, 687-689; supernatural or medicinal effect ascribed to the partaking of human, ii. 564 _sq._ See Cannibalism

---- -covenant, the, ii. 206-209, 566 _sq._

---- -money. See Compensation for homicide

---- -revenge, i. 477-492, ii. 748; collective responsibility in, i. 24, 25, 30-36, 43; vow of, i. 58; restricted to the actual culprit, i. 71; a cause of social disturbance, i. 182 _sq._; in cases of accidental injury, i. 217, 218, 231 _sq._; taken upon animals, i. 251-253, 255 256, 258; upon lunatics, i. 271; connection between inheritance and, ii. 54 _sq._; between the system of tracing descent and, ii. 211

Bodily integrity, the right to, ch. xxii. (i. 511-525); of the dead, ii. 516 _sq._; of gods, ii. 602, 610

Boundaries. See Landmarks

Brother, killing of a, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2. See Fraternal affection, duties

---- the elder, allowed to inflict corporal punishment upon the younger one, i. 515; respect for, i. 605, 606, 614; curses of, i. 626, ii. 703

Buffaloes, abstinence from the flesh of, ii. 320, 322; prohibition of killing, for food, ii. 330

Buildings, human sacrifices offered at the foundation of, i. 447 n. ^5, 461-465; animals sacrificed at the foundation of, ii. 617

Bull-baiting, ii. 509 _sq._

Burglary, i. 187, 312, ii. 58, 633

Burial, ii. 521-523, 525-527. 542, 543, 546-548, 704; depending on the mode of death, i. 26, ii. 238-240, 246, 248, 252, 255 _sq._; denied to suicides, ii. 238, 250, 549; to murdered persons, ii. 239, 549; to persons struck by lightning, ii. 2 39, 549; to persons who have killed a parent, brother, or child, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2; of criminals, ii. 694

Butchers, regarded as unclean, ii. 493; despised, ii. 498

Butter, abstinence from, ii. 326

CALUMNY, ii. 140-142; against dead persons, ii. 519, 552

Calves, abstinence from slaughtering, ii. 331

Camels, revenge in, i. 37 _sq._; abstinence from the flesh of, ii. 332, 334 n. ^2

Cannibalism, ch. xlvi. (ii. 553-581); old persons victims of, i. 390, ii. 554, 568 _sq._; practised for medicinal purposes, i. 401, ii. 562, 564 _sq._; the firstborn a victim of, i. 458 _sq._, ii. 562; as a punishment, ii. 4, 367, 554, 558 _sq._; considered polluting, ii. 538, 575 _sq._

Carelessness, i. 210-212, 305-310, 317 _sq._

Castes, intermarriage between different, ii. 379. See Rank

Casuistry, ii. 100, 101, 117

Cats, sympathetic resentment in, ii. 52; abstinence from eating, ii. 327, 330, 332; taken for spirits in disguise, ii. 491; their fear of strange phenomena, ii. 583

Cattle, stealing of, i. 187 _sq._, ii. 14; abstinence from killing, ii. 330, 493 _sq._; reverence for, ii. 331 _sq._; affection for, ii. 331, 494. See Beef, Calves, Cows, Oxen

---- -rearing, largely a masculine pursuit, i. 634, 636. See Pastoral peoples

Celibacy, ch. xli. (ii. 399-421); a cause of unchastity, ii. 432; of homosexual practices, ii. 467

Character, i. 214, 215, 310-314, 318 _sq._; the innate, i. 325 _sq._

Charity, ch. xxiii. (i. 526-569); as a duty emphasised by religion, i. {840}549-558, 561-569, ii. 669, 672, 699, 705, 711, 717, 718, 725, 726, 732. See Alms

Charms, made from dead bodies, ii. 204, 546; against the evil eye, ii. 256 n. ^2; put in tombs, ii. 701

Chastity, ch. xlii. (ii. 422-455); suicide as a means of preserving, ii. 242, 251 _sq._; fasting the beginning of, ii. 318; required in connection with the religious cult, ii. 406-421, 736

Chiefs, tied by custom, i. 161 _sq._; justice administered by, i. 173-176, 180-184, 490 _sq._; protecting foreigners and persons who have no relations, i. 180; killing of, i. 43; human sacrifices offered for the purpose of saving the lives of, i. 454-456, 466; sacrificed, i. 466; the practice of compensation encouraged by, i. 490 _sq._; disrespect for, punished by gods, i. 626; proprietary rights of, ii. 33; suicide committed on the graves of, ii. 234; labour suspended on the death of, ii. 284; abstinence from fish after the death of, ii. 301; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 527; cannibalism practised by, ii. 558, 574; their tombs asylums, ii. 630; their houses asylums, ii. 636; their persons asylums, ii. 636 _sq._ See King.

Children, the subjection of, ch. xxv. (i. 597-628); cursed or blessed by their parents, i. 58, 538, 621-627, ii. 703, 715. 716 n. ^2, 732; punished if convicted of a design to kill their father or mother, i. 245; parents killing their infant, i. 378 394-413, 633, ii. 562, 752 _sq._; killing their parents, i. 383-386, 522, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2; killing or abandoning their aged parents, i. 386-390, 606, 607, 612, 620; eating their parents, i. 390, ii. 554, 568 _sq._; parents killing their grown-up, i. 393 _sq._, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2; a father's affection for his, i. 401, 402, 405, 529-533, ii. 187-190, 193, 397, 748; a mother's affection for her, i. 405, 529-531, ii. 186-190, 193, 748; eaten by their parents or others, i. 401, 458 _sq._, ii. 554, 555, 562, 568 _sq._; parents exposing their new-born, i. 406-412, 689; sacrificed to save the lives of their parents, i. 455, 456, 459-461; sacrificed by their parents, i. 455-461; committing suicide on the death of their parents, i. 473; parents inflicting corporal punishment upon their, i. 513-515, 607, 610; using violence against their parents, i. 513 624 _sq._, ii. 677; parents' duty of taking care of their, i. 526-533; their duty of taking care of their parents, i. 533-538; their respect for their parents, i. 534-538, 600, 601, 607-613, 616-628, ii. 194; their affection for their parents i. 534-538, 618, ii. 194, 748; for their mothers, i. 618, 659; their duties to their parents emphasised by religion, i. 536, 537, 608, 610, 612, 613, 616, 617, 620-627, ii. 711, 714, 715, 716 n. ^2, 717 732; cursing their parents, i. 564; sold as slaves by their parents, i. 599, 607, 609, 611, 612, 615, 675, 681, 682, 684, 685, 689, 691 _sq._; proprietary incapacities of, ii. 27, 28, 57; rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 44-49, 53-57; telling a falsehood in the presence of their parents, ii. 96; addressing abusive language to their parents, ii. 142; their duties to their parents, ii. 166, 748; parents' duties to their, ii. 166, 748; parents committing suicide on the death of their, ii. 232, 244 n. ^3; parents fasting after the death of their, ii. 298-300; fasting after the death of their parents, ii. 298-301; punished after death for inflicting injuries upon their parents, ii. 715; adopted, see Adopted children; illegitimate, see Illegitimate children

Children, young, the anger of, i. 22 _sq._; sympathetic resentment in, i. 112; their ideas of right and wrong, i. 115; their respect for the customary, i. 159; injuries committed by, i. 217, 218, 264-269, 316; treatment of, in war i. 335, 336, 342, 343, 369 _sq._; sacrificed, i. 454-461; their desire to appropriate and to keep that which has been appropriated, ii. 51; truthfulness and mendacity of, ii. 88 n. ^5, 111 n. ^3, 116, 117, 124-126, 129; disposed to believe what they are told, ii. 109; their {841} dislike of that which is strange or unfamiliar, ii. 227; the altruistic sentiment in, i. 228; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 526, 527, 549; their fear of strange phenomena, ii. 583; the future state of, ii. 673, 727; the future state of unbaptised, ii. 721-723

Chivalry, i. 352-355

Clan, the, i. 627 _sq._, ii. 202, 213, 214, 216-220, 222 _sq._

Class distinction, cleanliness a, ii. 351

Classes, intermarriage between different, ii. 379-382. See Rank

"Classificatory system," the, ii. 393

Cleanliness, ii. 346-356; ceremonial, ii. 294, 295, 352-354, 358, 359, 415-420, 700 n. ^5, 705, 718, 726, 752

Climate, connection between industry and, ii. 269-271; between cleanliness and, ii. 349 _sq._

Cock-fighting, ii. 509 _sq._

Cocks, prohibition of eating tame, ii. 330

Cocoa, abstinence from, ii. 321; religious veneration of, ii. 591

Common enjoyment of merits, i. 96-99

---- responsibility, in blood-revenge, i. 24, 25, 30-36, 43, 71; in the case of punishment, i. 43-48, 69-72; in the case of sin, i. 48-57, 61-72

"Communal marriage," ii. 445

Community of goods, ii. 50 _sq._

Compacts, sealing of, i. 587, ii. 622-624

Compensation, the relation between punishment and, i. 168 _sq._; for involuntary destruction of property, i. 222-225, 38 _sq._; for bodily injuries, i. 511-513, 517-520, 524 n. ^3, ii. 263; for the seduction of an unmarried woman, ii. 425, 426, 436 _sq._; for rape, ii. 438; for adultery, ii. 447 _sq._

---- for homicide, i. 183, 484-491; if committed accidentally, i. 217, 219-221, 224, 226; if committed by a child, i. 268; by an idiot, i. 272; if the victim is a woman, i. 420 _sq._; if the victim is a slave, i. 423; influenced by the rank of the victim, i. 430 _sq._

---- for sin, i. 86 _sq._

Compulsion, injuries committed under, i. 284, 285, 316, 319; confounded with causation, i. 322-326

"Compulsion by necessity," i. 285-287, ii. 1

Conduct, i. 202, 203, 214, 215, 314

Confession, i. 84 _sq._, ii. 360

Conjugal affection, i. 113, 532 _sq._, ii. 190-193; its influence on the form of marriage, ii. 192, 389, 391; on the duration of marriage, ii. 397; on moral ideas concerning unchastity, ii. 439 _sq._

Conscience, i. 105-107, 123-125; an unjust retributer, i. 15 _sq._; animals credited with a, i. 249-251

Contributions, military, ii. 27

_Contubernium_, of slaves, i. 693, 697, 706 _sq._; between freemen and slaves, ii. 381

Cooking, abstained from after a death, ii. 304-306

Corporal punishment, ii. 520-525

Cosmopolitanism, ii. 176-179, 182-185

Courage, admiration of, i. 16, 117, ii. 16, 58, 273, 590; the duel regarded as a test of, i. 509; suicide regarded as a test of, ii. 251, 261 _sq._; approved of by the supreme being, ii. 679; the future state of a warrior supposed to be determined by his,