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Abipones aborigines according actions adultery Africa American animals appear Areoi Australian Aymaras Bechuanas become Bedouins believe Berber blood cannibalism Captain character chastity chief clan Colonel Dalton conduct conscience considered crime culture custom death described duty Dyaks Ellis enemies Eskimo Ethnology of Bengal evident exhibited fact father feeling female girls Herbert Spencer History of Greenland History of Madagascar homicide hospitality human husband Indian infanticide inflicted influence inhabitants injury instinct islanders Itelmen Kafirs killed Koraks latter lex talionis live Madecasses marriage married Mongols moral ideas moral sense moreover mother murder natives nature neighbours notion offender origin Ostiaks parents person polygamy Polynesian practice primitive probably punished race recognised reference relation revenge Samoyedes Santals savage says sentiment sexual slaves social sorcery spirit strangers supposed sympathy theft thought tion Travels treacherous treated tribal tribes uncultured usually virtue wife wives woman women writer wrong
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Page 17 - ... the rules and precepts for human conduct," by the observance of which an existence such as has been described might be, to the greatest extent possible, secured to all mankind; and not to them only, but, so far as the nature of things admits, to the whole sentient creation.
Page 19 - The deeply rooted conception which every individual even now has of himself as a social being, tends to make him feel it one of his natural wants that there should be harmony between his feelings and aims and those of his fellow creatures.
Page 43 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 202 - ... want of food, when the father of a child has forsaken its mother, or when obliged to flee from the Farmers or others; in which case they will strangle them, smother them, cast them away in the desert, or bury them alive. There are instances of parents throwing their tender offspring to the hungry Lion, who stands roaring before their cavern, refusing to depart till some peace-offering be made to him.
Page 17 - ... original conditions by which virtue is made virtue ; however they may believe (as they do) that actions and dispositions are only virtuous because they promote another end than virtue ; yet this being granted, and it having been decided, from considerations of this description, what...
Page 17 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 19 - Its binding force, however, consists in the existence of a mass of feeling which must be broken through in order to do what violates our standard of right ; and which, if we do nevertheless violate that standard, will probably have to be encountered afterwards in the form of remorse.
Page 171 - Tshaka ordered several men to be executed on the spot; and the cries became, if possible, more violent than ever. No further orders were needed; but, as if bent on convincing their chief of their -extreme grief, the multitude commenced a general massacre.
Page 8 - ... former cases. All those sentiments of which the final object is a state of the will, become thus intimately and inseparably blended; and of that perfect state of solution (if such words may be allowed) the result is Conscience...
Page 356 - A sum paid either in kind or in money, where money existed, was placed upon the life of every free man according to his rank in the state, his birth or his office. A corresponding sum was settled for every wound...