The Principles of Sociology, Volume 1Appleton, 1884 - Sociology |
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Abipones actions activities Amazulu ancestor-worship ancestors ancient Andamanese animals Arawaks arise ascribed Bechuanas become belief blood body Bushmen carrying cause centres character characterized Chibchas chief civilized cluster co-operation compound conception Damaras dead death deceased deities described developed differentiation Dyaks endogamy evidence evolution evolved exist exogamy facts father Fijians Fuegians functions further ghosts gods groups habitats habitually Hence higher human ideas implied increase Indians individual organism industrial infer Khonds kind kindred king legend less living M'Lennan marriage ment metamorphoses militant type natural notion observe original other-self pass person Peru Peruvians political polyandry polygyny primitive produced propitiation races regarded regulating system relations respecting savage says shown similarly Sir John Lubbock social aggregates social organism societies Soma souls spirits stages structures subordination supernatural supposed tells things thought tion trait tribes units Unkulunkulu unlike Veddahs wives women worship Ynca
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Page 256 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 749 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.
Page 716 - Tribes constitutes the Commonwealth. Are we at liberty to follow these indications, and to lay down that the commonwealth is a collection of persons united by common descent from the progenitor of an original family? Of this we may at least be certain, that all ancient societies regarded themselves as having proceeded from one original stock, and even labored under an incapacity for comprehending any reason except this for their holding together in political union.
Page 792 - If women comprehended all that is contained in the domestic sphere, they would ask no other. If they could see everything which is implied in the right education of children, to a full conception of which no man has yet risen, much less any woman, they would seek no higher function.
Page 612 - Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man...
Page 643 - ... or of rites which furnish evidence of its former existence. Mr. M'Lennan traces it to infanticide, which by "rendering women scarce, led at once to polyandry within the tribe, and the capturing of women from without.
Page 96 - Yet they seldom lose oxen : the way in which they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face which they know.
Page 612 - CIVITAS), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Page 768 - This cruel custom of exposing their aged people, belongs, I think, to all the tribes who roam about the prairies, making severe marches, when such decrepit persons are totally unable to go, unable to ride or to walk — when they have no means of carrying them. It often becomes absolutely necessary in such cases that they should be left; and they uniformly insist upon it, saying as this old man did, that they are old and of no further use — that they left their fathers in the same manner — that...
Page 678 - But, lest so pleasing a picture may delude some of the strong-minded ladies (of America) to get up an agitation for the establishment of polyandry in the West, I must say it struck me that the having many husbands sometimes appeared to be only having many masters and increased toil and trouble.