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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAborigines abstain According Africa Aleuts ancient animals Anthr Bedouins believe belonging blood body Brahmanism cannibalism Central Australia China Chinese Christian civilisation clan common considered crime curse custom dead death duty Egyptians Ellis Eskimo Ethn falsehood fast father feeling flesh Frazer gods Golden Bough Greenland group marriage Herodotus Hindus History History of Greenland honour human husband Ibid idea Idem India Indians Inst instances intercourse Islanders Jour Kafirs killed kind labour Laws of Manu living Maoris marriage marry Masai Migne moral Muhammedan nations natural object observes offence origin pederasty person Plato Plutarch Point Barrow polygyny Polynesian practice prohibited punished quoted race regarded Religion religious Roman sacred sacrifice savages says seems sexual slave soul South Spencer spirit strangers suicide supposed Supra Tertullian theft totem Travels truth Uganda Veddahs Voyage Westermarck whilst wife woman women worship Zoroastrian Popular passagesPage 538 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. Page 258 - A Declaration of that Paradoxe or Thesis that Selfhomicide is not so naturally Sin that it may never be otherwise. Page 616 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God... Page 436 - And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. Page 410 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Page 201 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. Page 107 - A curious arbitrary rule affects one class of stratagems by forbidding certain permitted means of deception from the moment at which they cease to deceive. It is perfectly legitimate to use the distinctive emblems of an enemy in order to escape from him or to draw his forces into action; but it is held that soldiers clothed in the uniforms of their enemy must put on a conspicuous mark by which they can be recognized before attacking, and that a vessel using the enemy's flag must hoist its own flag... Page 131 - Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Page 276 - An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy. Page 435 - It must not be supposed," he says, " that these women are always easily won ; the greatest attentions and most fervent solicitations are sometimes requisite, even though there be no other lover in the way. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe kiss of the porcupines: From attributing responsibility to ...FRANK D FINCHAM - 2000 - Personal Relationships Any Animal WhateverJessica C Flack, Frans BM de Waal - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciencesHerbert Gintis - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences Ambivalence and Compromise in Human NatureChristopher Boehm - 1989 - American Anthropologist References from web pagesJSTOR: The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward ... Internet Archive: Details: The origin and development of the moral ... The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (work by Westermarck ... The Online Books Page: The Origin and Development of the Moral ... Sexual intercourse: Definition with Sexual intercourse Pictures ... Edward Westermarck: The Invisible Master Atheism THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF ETHICS Edward Westermarck, the Developmental Paradigm, Reading History ... Bibliographic information |