ii. 419;

addicted to homosexual practices, ii. 458, 459, 465, 472, 477, 484, 486 _sq._; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 527; cannibalism of, ii. 564; killing of disappointing, ii. 609; their residences asylums, ii. 631. See Witches; _cf._ Priests

Males, the sexual impulse of, i. 657

Mammals, paternal care among, ii. 189 _sq._; maternal care among, ii. 190; the duration of conjugal unions among, ii. 192

Man-gods, eating of, ii. 563 _sq._; killing of, ii. 606-610, 753 _sq._

Mankind at large, duties to. See Cosmopolitanism

Manslaughter, distinguished from murder, i. 294-298, ii. 633

Manslayers, regarded as unclean, i. 225, 232, 233, 375-382, ii. 256 _sq._ n. ^2; adoption of unintentional, i. 484; refuge denied to, ii. 632 _sq._

Marital affection, i. 113, 532 _sq._, ii. 190-193. See Conjugal affection

Marriage, ch. xl. (ii. 364-398); as a compensation for homicide, i. 484; the father's consent required for a daughter's, i. 599, 609, 611, 613, 615 _sq._, ii. 383; for a son's, i. 609, 613, 615 _sq._; the parents' {852} consent required for a child's, i. 607, 608, 617, 618, 624 _sq._; slaves prohibited from contracting a legal, i. 693, 697, 706 _sq._; prohibition of, between white and coloured persons, i. 714; between relations by adoption, ii. 369, 374, 375, 748-750, 752; regarded as a duty, ii. 399-405; enjoined by religion, ii. 399-404; between dead persons, ii. 400; forbidden to persons whose function it is to perform religious or magical rites, ii. 405-409, 412-414, 418-421; considered impure, ii. 410-412; between a god and a woman, ii. 412-414; avoidance of, between cannibals and their non-cannibal neighbours, ii. 571; the contracting of a second, forbidden to widows, i. 475, ii. 450 _sq._; to priests, ii. 412; considered improper for widowers, ii. 451. See Divorce, Group marriage, Incest, Levirate

Marriage by capture, ii. 382 _sq._

---- by purchase, i. 421, 599, 632 _sq._, ii. 382-385, 751; a hindrance to polygyny, ii. 389; the marriage tie strengthened by, ii. 397; the standard of female chastity raised by, ii. 436, 437, 440

---- portion, ii. 385 _sq._; the marriage tie strengthened by the, ii. 397

Maternal affection, i. 405, 529-531, ii. 186-190, 193, 748

---- duties, i. 526, 533, **ii. 748

---- rights, ch. xxv. (i. 597-628), **ii. 748

Matter, regarded as impure, ii. 362 _sq._

Meat, manslayers prohibited from eating, i. 375; abstained from before the offering of a sacrifice, ii. 296; after a death, ii. 301, 302, 304 _sq._ See Vegetarianism

----, fresh, abstained from after a death, ii. 300 _sq._; by girls at puberty, ii. 307 _sq._

Medicines, religious veneration of, ii. 591, 641

Men, the occupations of, i. 633-637; the sexual impulse of, i. 657; forbidden to eat certain foods, ii. 321 _sq._; extra-matrimonial intercourse of, ii. 422-434, 436-455; the preference given to virgin brides by, ii. 434-437, 440; homosexual practices between, ch. xliii. (ii. 456-489), ii. 752 _sq._

"Merit," analysis of the concept, i. 150-152

Merits, i. 86, ii. 360 _sq._, common enjoyment of, i. 96-99; the conferring of, upon the dead, ii. 550-552

Midsummer customs, i. 56 _sq._

Milk, prohibition of boiling, i. 197; offered to strangers, i. 590 _sq._; abstinence from, ii. 325 _sq._; after a death, ii. 301

Miracles, ii. 590 _sq._

Modesty, ii. 144 _sq._

Monkeys, the feeling of revenge in, i. 37 _sq._; self-regarding pride in, i. 39, ii. 138; sympathetic resentment in, i. 112; credited with a conscience, i. 249; adoption of young among, ii. 189; abstinence from eating, ii. 328 _sq._; aversion to killing, ii. 329, 490, 513. See Apes

Monks, sexual intercourse forbidden to, ii. 409, 412; addicted to homosexual practices, ii. 462, 467

Monogamy, ii. 192, 387-392

Monotheism, intolerance of, ii. 644-647, 649, 650, 652; its tendency to attribute the most exalted qualities to the deity, ii. 734

Moon, abstinence from work in connection with changes in the, ii. 284-287, 747; fasting in connection with changes in the, ii. 296, 297. 309-313

---- gods, appealed to in oaths, ii. 121, 122, 699; regarded as judges, ii. 699, 703 _sq._

Moral approval, the nature of, i. 21, 93-107; the origin of, i. 108-111, 117-123, 129 _sq._; moral concepts springing from, i. 145-154; only indirectly expressed in custom, i. 160; hardly at all expressed in law, i. 166 _sq._; the resemblance between the phenomena which give rise to gratitude and those which call forth, i. 318 _sq._

"---- axioms," i. 12

---- concepts, based on moral emotions, ch. i. (i. 4-20); analysis of the principal, ch. vi (i. 131-157); among non-European peoples, i. 131-133

---- disapproval, the nature of, i. 21-93, 100-107; the origin of, i. {853}108-129; moral concepts springing from, i. 134-145; expressed in customs and laws, ch. vii. (i. 158-201); the resemblance between the phenomena which give rise to non-moral resentment and those which call forth, i. 315-319

Moral emotions, the moral concepts based on, chs. i. (i. 4-20), vi. (i. 131-157); the nature of the, chs. ii.-iv. (i. 21-107); the origin of the, ch. v. (i. 108-130); expressed in customs and laws, ch. vii. (i. 158-201); the resemblance between the phenomena which give rise to non-moral retributive emotions and those which call forth, i. 314-319; not determined by the cognition of free-will, i. 321-326

---- evolution, general characteristics of, ii. 743-746

---- ideals, i. 153 _sq._

---- judgments, the emotional origin of, ch. i. (i. 4-20); the assumed objectivity of, i. 6-20, 104 _sq._; the general nature of the subjects of, chs. viii.-xii. (i. 202-313); why conduct and character form the subjects of, i. 314-320; the relation between free-will and, i. 320-326; the innate character the proper subject of, i. 326

---- law, the authoritativeness attributed to the, i. 14-17

"---- reason," i. 7 _sq._

"---- truth," i. 17 _sq._

Morbid impulses, injuries committed under the influence of, i. 298 _sq._

Morning gift, ii. 385

_Mos_, i. 119, 122

Mother, children's affection for their, i. 534-538, 618, 659, ii. 194, 748; descent traced through the, i. 597 598, 655 _sq._, ii. 44-46, 54, 202, 203, 205, 206, 211, 220; committing suicide on the death of her only son, ii. 244 n. ^3. See Maternal affection, duties, rights; Parents

Motives, ch. xi. (i. 283-302); i. 207-209, 316, 318

Mourners, delicate state of, ii. 283, 307; considered polluted, ii. 306, 307, 545; purificatory ceremonies of, ii. 354

Mourning costume, ii. 524, 545, 547

---- customs, ii. 283, 284, 298-308, 520, 524, 526, 528, 541, 542, 544-548; forbidden in the case of suicide, ii. 247. See Death

Murder, manslaughter distinguished from, i. 294-298, ii. 633. See Homicide

Mutilation, as a punishment, i. 192, 195. 311, 312, 513, 518-523. ii. 8, 9, 12, 13, 74, 84, 123 n. ^1, 143 n. ^1, 447, 449 _sq._

Mutton, abstinence from, ii. 322, 327

Mutual aid, i. 538-569

NAMES, certain superstitions relating to, i. 460, ii. 369; social influence of, ii. 203 _sq._; their influence on exogamy, ii. 369, 748; prohibition of mentioning dead persons', ii. 524, 545-547, 550; of mentioning supernatural beings', ii. 640-643

National conceit, ii. 170-174

Nationalism, i. 367-369, ii. 184, 185, 224 _sq._

Nationality, the feeling of, ii. 183-185. See Patriotism

Negative commandments, why more prominent than positive commandments, i. 303

Negligence, i. 210, 211, 303-305

Negro slavery, i. 428, 429, 516-518, 683, 704-714, ii. 32 _sq._

Negroes, not accepted as witnesses against white persons, i. 429; antipathy to, i. 713 _sq._; injuries inflicted upon white persons by, i. 713 _sq._; white persons prohibited from marrying, i. 714

New, fear of anything, i. 462 _sq._

Nuns, sexual intercourse forbidden to, ii. 409, 412

OATHS, materialistic conception of, i. 58-61, 233 _sq._; the taking of, forbidden to the high priest, i. 58, ii. 638; to priestesses, ii. 638; contained in ordeals, i. 505 _sq._, ii. 687-690; taken upon arms, i. 506, ii. 119-121; upon tent-poles, i. 588 n. ^5; in connection with theft, ii. 62, 63, 66, 68; sworn by the eldest sister, i. 606; on the life of the king, ii. 637; supernatural beings appealed to in, ii. 67, 68, 120-123, 686-690, 699, 731 _sq._; prohibition of taking, ii. 99, 124; not considered binding if contrary to the good of the Church,