The origin and development of the moral ideas

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Twins, i. 395, 396, 408, 460

ULTIMOGENITURE, ii. 46, 48, 56

Unbelief, ii. 644-646, 705; as a subject of moral judgment, i. 216; considered a legitimate cause of war, i. 339, 349-352, 359; the right to bodily integrity influenced by, i. 520; a cause of uncharitableness, i. 557, 696; a ground for enslaving captives, i. 686, 695; the valuation of theft or robbery influenced by, ii. 20, 25; does not justify breach of faith, ii. 93; a legitimate ground for deceiving an enemy, ii. 94; a bar to intermarriage, ii. 380 _sq._; homosexual practices associated with, ii. 486-489; the right to life influenced by, ii. 705; the future state influenced by, ii. 719-721, 725-727

Unchastity, ch. xlii. _sq._ (ii. 422-489); of unmarried persons, supposed to incur divine punishment, i. 49, ii. 675; forbidden to priests and priestesses, ii. 406-409, 412-414, 419 _sq._; to monks and nuns, ii. {864} 409, 412; to persons who wish to become priests or priestesses, ii. 419; supposed to injure the harvest, ii. 417, 747; celibacy a cause of, ii. 432

Uncle, children in the power of their maternal, i. 597 _sq._

Uncleanliness, ii. 348-356

Uncleanness. See Pollution

Unearned income, ii. 70 _sq._

Unintentional injuries, i. 217-240, 315, 316, 319, ii. 714; benefits, i. 318 _sq._

Unnatural love. See Homosexual love

_Usucapio_, ii. 40

VAMPIRES, i. 476, ii. 564, 709

Veal, considered unwholesome, ii. 332

Vegetarianism, ii. 335-338, 499

Venison, abstinence from, ii. 320

Veracity. See Truth, regard for

Vermin, revenge taken upon, i. 26, 27, 251; regard for, ii. 492, 493, 498 _sq._

Vestal virgins, i. 439, 453, ii. 407, 408, 637 _sq._

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

Village communities, ii. 200-202, 213, 214, 216, 219

Violent death, the future state of persons who have died a, i. 481 _sq._, ii. 237-239, 242

Virginity, required of priestesses, ii. 406-408; religious veneration of, 409-411, 429; not required of a bride, ii. 422-424, 440, 441, 444-446; required of unmarried women, ii. 424-442; the preference given by men to, ii. 434-437, 440

"Virtue," analysis of the concept, i. 147-150

Virtue, transference of, i. 98

Vivisection, ii. 510, 512, 514

Volitions, as subjects of moral judgments, i. 202-210; as a source of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 314-319

---- absence of, a subject of moral judgment, i. 210-214; a cause of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 317-319

WAGER of battle, i. 306, 504-507

War, i. 331-382; provoked by a homicide, i. 33; humanity towards enemies in, i. 335, 336, 342-344, 369, 370, 558, ii. 711; private, i. 355-358; human sacrifices offered in, i. 440, 441, 447 n. ^5, 449; ending in a duel, i. 497 _sq._; destruction of property in, ii. 25 _sq._; seizure of property in, ii. 26, 27, 38, 58 _sq._; deceit in, ii. 94, 106-108, 112; the future state of persons who have fallen in, ii. 237, 521, 694, 697, 704, 708; burial of persons who have fallen in, ii. 239; considered a nobler occupation than labour, ii. 272-274, 278, 282; fasting after a reverse in, ii. 315; a cause of polygyny, ii. 389, 391; prevalence of homosexual love among peoples addicted to, ii. 467, 479, 752

War, prisoners of, treatment of, i. 336, 343, 422; sacrificed to gods, i. 339, 441, 450, 452, 467; to the dead, i. 472, 474; bodily injuries inflicted upon, i. 519 _sq._; enslaved, i. 674, 675, 677, 681-686, 688-691, 695, 701, 715; ransom accepted for, i. 701; eaten, ii. 554, 561, 578

Water, human sacrifices offered for the purpose of getting drinking, i. 451 _sq._

White men, atrocities committed by, among coloured peoples, i. 370 _sq._; coloured persons not accepted as witnesses against, i. 429; their demoralising influence upon savages, i. 548, 549, 571 _sq._, ii. 2, 126-129, 424, 735; injuries inflicted by coloured persons upon, i. 713 _sq._; prohibited from marrying coloured persons, i. 714; looked down upon by savages, ii. 171 _sq._; taken for spirits, ii. 590

Widowers, suicide committed by, ii. 232, 233, 235 _sq._; fasting of, ii. 299-301; second marriages of, prohibited or condemned, ii. 412, 451

Widows, sacrifice of, i. 472-474, ii. 450 _sq._; suicide committed by, i. 473 _sq._, ii. 232, 234, 235, 241, 242, 244, 247; prohibited from remarrying, i. 475, ii. 450 _sq._; rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 45, 47 55 _sq._; fasting of, ii. 298-301; priests forbidden to marry, ii. 412, 420

Will, the, as the subject of moral judgment, ch. ix. (i. 217-248), i. 214-216, 310-314; as a cause of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 315, 319. See Free-will

{865} Wills, ii. 43, 53; the sacredness attached to, ii. 519, 541, 552

Wine, superstitious notions concerning, i. 278, 281, ii. 344, 345, 591 _sq._; prohibition of, ii. 341-345; after a death, ii. 302, 305; in honour of the sun, ii. 312

Wishes, deliberate, as subjects of moral judgments, i. 206 _sq._

Witchcraft, ii. 649-652; punishment of, i. 45, 189, 190, 492, ii. 650-652. See Magic

Witches, lunatics burned as, i. 273; old women regarded as, i. 620; addicted to homosexual practices, ii. 484 n. ^1; the custom of swimming, ii. 690. See Witchcraft

Wives, the subjection of, ch. xxvi. (i. 629-669); punished if convicted of a design to kill their husbands, i. 245; crimes committed by, in the presence of their husbands, i. 284; husbands killing their, i. 418, 419, 631; killing their husbands, i. 419 _sq._; acquired by duels, i. 499, 500, 503; husbands inflicting bodily injuries upon their, i. 514-516, 631; the duty of husbands to protect and support their, i. 526-529, 532 _sq._; lending of, to guests or others, i. 575, 593, ii. 752; cursed by their husbands, i. 626; sold as slaves by their husbands, i. 675, 684; proprietary rights and incapacities of, i. 632, 637-641, 643, 645, 661, ii. 28-31, 41, 57; belief in a mysterious bond of sympathy between husbands and,