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60393Anyone else want a coke?
60393See any signs of intelligent action yet?
60393See something, Joe?
60393You sure, Joe?
60393Could it be that these creatures were really men of some sort, with bodies like men, covered with something thin like leaves are thin?
60393How could it move without being carried?
60393How could there be anyone besides himself who could do that?
60393How could they remain unaware of it and not leap to safety?
60393Should he wait until in the morning to let them get their first glimpse of him?
60393Was she hiding?
60393Was this some kind of magic?
22910Do you promise that you will deliver me such and such a slave, at such and such a place, on such and such a day?
22910All this is easily understood by a modern; but who are the Agnates?
22910But in what capacity did he acquire them?
22910But there is still the question, Why did Primogeniture gradually supersede every other principle of succession?
22910But what was the Family?
22910But why?
22910How came it to be a question whether invariable sequence was identical with necessary connection?
22910How was authority so little definite reconciled with a settled condition of society and of law?
22910I must confine myself to two questions: how far did Maine develop or modify in his subsequent writings the main thesis of_ Ancient Law_?
22910The next question is, what is the nature of this union and the degree of intimacy which it involves?
22910What then is meant by saying that the Slave was originally included in the Family?
22910What then is the inference?
22910What then is the reason of this arbitrary inclusion and exclusion?
22910What then was involved in this nexum or bond?
22910What was an Obligation?
22910What was the exact point of contact between the old Jus Gentium and the Law of Nature?
22910Why did this not occur in the feudal world?
22910Why were they not successively included among the favoured objects of enjoyment?
22910and how came it that the dead were allowed to control the posthumous disposition of their property?
22910to what extent has this thesis stood the test of the criticism and research of others?
22910to whom and in what form does it pass?
33111And if her husband adopts her as his child into his family, how can she remain separated from his gens?"
33111And if it was the duty of married couples to love one another, was it not just as much the duty of lovers to marry each other and nobody else?
33111And was it not Morgan who finally had to set him free?
33111And who had it above all others?
33111But outside of which gens?
33111But what good did protection do to the clients?
33111But what will be added?
33111But who was the owner of this new wealth?
33111Can prostitution disappear without engulfing at the same time monogamy?
33111Did not the two young people who were to be coupled together have the right freely to dispose of themselves, of their bodies and the organs of these?
33111For was not the same Professor Giraud- Teulon still wandering about aimlessly in the maze of McLennan''s exogamy in 1874( Origines de la famille)?
33111How can this be explained?
33111How could love have a chance to decide the question of marriage in the last instance under such conditions?
33111How did this agree with the prevailing practice of match- making?
33111How did this"robber marriage"originate?
33111If, however, an exception is to be made, who is so well entitled to authorize her as her first husband who bequeathed his property to her?
33111If, however, perfect freedom of decision is demanded for all other contracts, why not for this one?
33111McLennan further asks: Whence this custom of exogamy?
33111Since monogamy was caused by economic conditions, will it disappear when these causes are abolished?
33111Stood not the right of lovers higher than the right of parents, relatives and other customary marriage brokers and matrimonial agents?
33111They could have borne with the German, but an American?
33111Was it an innate magic power of the German race, as our jingo historians would have it?
33111We not only ask:"Was it legal or illegal?"
33111What becomes of this group of kinship when it constitutes itself a separate group, distinct from similar groups in the same tribe?
33111What constitutes an Indian tribe in America?
33111What does the term"unrestricted sexual intercourse"mean?
33111What is more natural than that this property should remain in the gens and that she should be obliged to marry a gentile of her husband and no other?
33111What though this was done at first in a half- conscious way and, moreover, in a religious disguise?
33111What was the mysterious charm by which the Germans infused a new life into decrepit Europe?
33111What was to be done?
33111Whence this reserve?
33111Why do the Erinyes persecute him and not her who is far more guilty?
33111as discussed between Maurer and Waitz, but"What was the form of that collective property?"
33111but also:"Was it caused by mutual love or not?"
35911Let the cattle go this time?
35911And still others were true aboriginals of the soil, or if emigrants, when and whence came they?
35911Any one of them will answer to the character of"Musty- fusty- shang?"
35911But how does he get it there?
35911But how does this gentleman maintain himself?
35911But how is he served?
35911But if the body part is not to be used in this way, how, you will ask, is it to be disposed of?
35911Does he fancy that no one has ever heard it but himself?
35911Does he have recourse to the water which flows in abundance beneath his dwelling?
35911Does he suppose that any one is ignorant of the character of the lion''s roar?
35911From whom does he steal these valuable animals,--and in such numbers as almost to subsist upon them?
35911Have I a reader who has not heard of the"King of the Cannibal Islands?"
35911His costume?
35911How can a single Indian of ordinary strength raise a weight of a thousand pounds out of the water, and lift it over the gunwale of his unsteady craft?
35911How could it be felt, where there is no love?
35911How is he domiciled?
35911How then does the Digger obtain his food?
35911How, then, are the proofs to be preserved?
35911How, then, can water be boiled in it?
35911How, then, does the Turcoman sportsman manage to bag this bristly game?
35911I need hardly add that they are dipped in poison;--for who has not heard of the poisoned arrows of the African Bushmen?
35911Is he a manufacturer,--and perforce a merchant,--who exchanges with some other tribe his manufactured goods for provisions and"raw material?"
35911Is it allowed to hang down outside, like the gown of a slattern woman, who has only half got into it?
35911Is it because he can not afford it, or that it is not procurable in his country?
35911Is it for personal security against human enemies,--for this sometimes drives a people to seek singular situations for their homes?
35911Is there anything peculiar about the style of his house or his village?
35911It can not be the scarcity of the material that prevents him from employing it,--what then?
35911It now becomes necessary to inquire how the Bushman spends his time?
35911Need I say more?
35911Of course, such evidence is sufficient for the present; but how about the future?
35911Other enemies?
35911Otherwise, in this desert land, how should the ravenous puma maintain himself?--how the vultures and vulture- eagles?
35911Perhaps they have lost their way?
35911The name of this wonderful tree?
35911There is no water, and a Bushman can no more go without drinking than a boer: how then does he provide for himself on these long expeditions?
35911There is no winter or cold weather here,--why should the walls be thick?
35911To whom does this vast pasture- ground belong?
35911Upon what do they all prey?
35911What are his sources of supply?
35911What is this food, and from whence derived?
35911What quadruped could detect the cheat?
35911When the spoilers scatter thus, the boer may recover his cattle, but in what condition?
35911Whence comes their subsistence?
35911Where do the Bushmen dwell?
35911Where do they get it?
35911Where does he stretch his body,--on the floor?--on a mat?
35911Where is he now?
35911Where is he to be seen?
35911Who are the dwellers upon the Pampas?
35911Who can say that he was not at one time the owner of the Malayan peninsula?
35911Who has not heard of the_ giants_ of Patagonia?
35911Who then can deny his resemblance to the centaur?
35911Whose flocks and herds are they that browse upon it?
35911Why do others betake themselves to the arid steppes and dreary recesses of the desert?
35911Why do the Esquimaux and Laplanders cling to their inhospitable home upon the icy coasts of the Arctic Sea?
35911Why do tribes of men take to the cold, barren mountains, and dwell there, within sight of lovely and fertile plains?
35911Why does he abjure the paint?
35911With such facts as these before our eyes, who can doubt the decline of the Spanish power?
35911With the_ terra firma_ close at hand, and equally convenient for all purposes of his calling, why does he not build his hut there?
35911Within reach of what then?
35911You can not fail to recognise it as the_ mosquito_?
35911You guess, no doubt, the insect to which I allude?
35911You will be inquiring how the horse could render the prairie Indian more independent of agriculture?
35911You will be inquiring to what point they direct themselves,--east, west, north, or south?
35911You will naturally inquire why he does this?
35911_ Quien sabe_?
35911and what is the nature of his food?
35911his arms?
35911his habits?
35911his occupation?
35911how could they?
35911how he obtains subsistence?
35911the dreaded jaguar, perhaps?
35911the utter enfeeblement of that once noble race?
35911what is their country?
35911what like is his home?
35911what sort of a house does he build?
35911where dwells he?
35911wild beasts?
52106And what does it say to them?
52106Do you not know,he exclaims,"that you are each an Eve?
52106How do you do?
52106If you ask a Kaffir why he does so and so, he will answer--''How can I tell? 52106 If you were to say to an Ainu,''You are old, are you not?''
52106Was''t Hamlet wrong''d Laertes? 52106 What do you call sin?"
52106Why,says the Stoic,"do you bear with the delirium of a sick man, or the ravings of a madman, or the impudent blows of a child?
52106Why,they would ask,"should a person not be{ 241} allowed to die, when he no longer desires to live?"
52106[ 107] St. Paul asks with scorn,Doth God take care for oxen?
52106[ 113] The Jain regards pleasure in itself as sinful:--What is discontent, and what is pleasure?
52106[ 151] But why should the stranger have been more willing than the bridegroom to expose himself to this danger? 52106 [ 34] When St. Peter asked,"Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
52106[ 4] Tertullian asks,Can it be lawful to{ 346} handle the sword, when the Lord Himself has declared that he who uses the sword shall perish by it?
52106[ 72] I often found the Beduins of Morocco extremely curious, but their curiosity consisted in the question, What? 52106 [ 89] The Moors ask,"What is your news?"
52106''Or savage, like wolves?''
52106----''Besitzen die Naturvölker ein persönliches Ehrgefühl?''
521067:"Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"]
52106A fellow- countryman, a savage, a criminal, a bird, a fish-- all without distinction?
52106Among the Burmese two relatives or friends who meet begin a conversation by the expressions,"Are you well?
52106Among the Californian Miwok, when anybody meets a stranger he generally salutes him,"Whence do you come?
52106An English sportsman, after firing at an antelope, inquired of his dark attendant,"Is it wounded?"
52106And all the mourning customs, what are they if not tokens of grief?
52106And does not this indicate that they have been neglectful of their duties to him?
52106And for those who refuse to accept the gift of grace offered to them, could there be a juster punishment than death?
52106And if it is a duty to recognise certain actions as indifferent how could it possibly at the same time be held a duty to perform them?
52106And is there any reason to suppose that the unsuccessful offender is less dangerous to society than he who succeeds?
52106And what is the cause of its original narrowness and of its subsequent extension?
52106And why did he give the young men his_ daughters_?
52106And why might not the{ 378} same law be applied to other relationships also, such as those constituted by a common descent or a common name?
52106And yet is eating and drinking too much, is spending too much time in outdoor exercise, is lounging idly about, morally indifferent?
52106And, if the theory referred to were correct, how could we explain the fact that the right of asylum is particularly attached to sanctuaries?
52106And, on the other hand, why is there in many cases such a wide agreement?
52106Are these phenomena less necessary or less powerful in their consequences, because they fall within the subjective sphere of experience?
52106Are they not much more harmful to the human race than self- murder, which nature prevents from ever being practised by any large number of men?
52106But an important question still calls for an answer, the question, Why is this so?
52106But how shall we explain those elements in the moral emotions by which they are distinguished from other, non- moral retributive emotions?
52106But how to account for this disposition?
52106But then, shall we reckon each tribe as one{ 656} unit by itself, or, if not, into how many groups shall we divide them?
52106But who does admit this?
52106But why should it not, in conformity with other practices, be regarded as a means of purifying the air?
52106But why the offender only?
52106Can a man do more than his duty, or, in other words, is there anything good which is not at the same time a duty?
52106Can we help feeling pain when the fire burns us?
52106Can we help sympathising with our friends?
52106Come, then, who would obey you if he saw his little child fall on the ground and cry?
52106Could the moral consciousness approve of this?
52106Delitzsch( Friedrich),_ Wo lag das Paradies?_ Leipzig, 1881.
52106Delitzsch,_ Wo lag das Paradies?_ p.
52106Did not Paley expressly define virtue as"the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness"?
52106Do they faithfully represent ideas of moral responsibility?
52106Do you like it not?
52106Do you like to be wretched?
52106Does not experience show that those whose thoughts are constantly occupied with the prescriptions of duty are apt to become hard and intolerant?
52106Does not public opinion in the midst of civilisation turn against the dishonoured rather than the dishonourer?
52106Even suppose, however, that group marriage really was once common in Australia, would that prove that it was once common among mankind at large?
52106First, how shall we explain their disinterestedness?
52106First, why do men recognise proprietary rights at all?
52106For when was the time that men were not used to act in this manner?
52106Have the most draconic codes ever been able to suppress, say, homosexual love?
52106Hence if you ask a Vaedda,''Do you marry your sisters?''
52106How can we get an insight into the moral ideas of mankind at large?
52106How does Professor Durkheim know that totem clans once prevailed among all peoples who now prohibit the intermarriage of near relatives?
52106How shall we explain all these facts?
52106How then shall we explain this analogy?
52106I am well,"if they have been some time separated; whereas those who are daily accustomed to meet say,"Where are you going?
52106I ask: Is it reasonable to think that there is no causal connection between these three groups of facts?
52106If it is the duty of animals to take vengeance upon men, is it not equally the duty of men to take vengeance upon animals?
52106If urged to work, they have been heard to say:''Why should we resemble the worms of the ground?
52106If war was allowed by God, could there be a more proper object for it than the salvation of souls otherwise lost?
52106If you endeavour to shew them the folly of this conduct, they say,''Why should we hurt them?
52106In Morocco, if a son or a daughter dies, it is customary to say to the afflicted parents,"Why are you sorry?
52106In an infuriated crowd the one gets angry because the other is angry, and very often the question, Why?
52106Is it due to defective knowledge, or has it a merely sentimental origin?
52106Is it right to ignore the second group altogether, as does Frazer, and to look upon the coincidence of the first and the third as accidental?
52106It may be an inquiry about the other person''s health or welfare, as the English"How are you?"
52106It may be asked, why should{ 581} he be received at all?
52106It seemed strange that the disagreement should be so radical, and the question arose, Whence this diversity of opinion?
52106Lasch,''Besitzen die Naturvölker ein persönliches Ehrgefühl?''
52106Londini,[ 1555?].
52106Moreover, had not the Israelites fought great battles"for the laws and the sanctuary"?
52106Mürdter- Delitzsch,_ Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens_, p. 38_ sq._ Delitzsch,_ Wo lag das Paradies?_ p. 86.
52106Nay, why are there any moral ideas at all?
52106Of course, he stands in need of protection and support, but why should those who do not know him care for that?
52106Parkyns asks,"Who is more trustworthy than the desert Arab?
52106Plato asks in his''Laws'':--"What ought he to suffer who murders his nearest and so- called dearest friend?
52106Professor Ziegler ironically asks:--"Such outward matters as eating and drinking are surely morally indifferent?
52106Selenoburgi,[ 1663?].
52106So, also, the Hebrew psalmist cries out,"Who can understand his errors?
52106So, too, why should the moral law command less obedience because it forms part of our own nature?
52106Stockholm,[ 1745?].
52106The best man even refuses to be called good by others:--"Why callest thou me good?
52106The ordinary salutation of the Zulus is,"I see you, are you well?"
52106The people, he argued, do not fear death; to what purpose, then, is it to try to frighten them with death?
52106The question is, what evidence can Dr. Steinmetz adduce to support his theory?
52106The single question asked is, Did the man kill the other?
52106What are you at?
52106What else could these mean but visits of their souls?
52106What good man would hesitate to die for her if he could do her service?
52106What happens?
52106What have I done to incur so severe an accusation?
52106What have you taken which belongs to him?
52106What is here the"ought"that forms the totality of the indifferent?
52106What is the source of the moral commandment,"Thou shalt not kill"?
52106What more legal book than Chronicles?
52106What?
52106When he then asked of his Druids,"Whence this evil?"
52106When the vassal objected that he could not subsist on such a soil, the archbishop answered,"Why do you complain?
52106When was it not permitted?
52106When was such conduct found fault with?
52106When, in short, was the time when that which is lawful was not lawful?
52106Who could affirm that every temperate, or charitable, or just man has acquired the virtue only as a result of inward struggle?
52106Who does it, then?
52106Who is that"Another"to whose greater good I ought not to prefer my own lesser good?
52106Why are the blessings and curses of parents supposed to possess such an extraordinary power?
52106Why are the moral opinions relating to it subject to so great variations?
52106Why do the moral ideas in general differ so greatly?
52106Why do they not deliver them up to justice through their earthly representatives?
52106Why has sexual intercourse between unmarried people, if both parties consent, come to be regarded as wrong?
52106Why is the standard commonly so different for man and woman?
52106Why not?
52106Why should I go shivering through all the ages and the distances of the next world?
52106Why should not the indifferent be allowed to do the same?
52106Why should the feeling against incest have survived in this case but not in others, if it had a purely conventional origin?
52106Why should the gods or saints themselves be so anxious to protect criminals who have sought refuge in their sanctuaries?
52106Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?
52106Why were suicides buried at cross- roads?
52106Why, then, could not the same have been the case with the aversion to incest and the prohibitory rules resulting from it?
52106Why?
52106Would anyone think himself to be in his perfect mind if he were to return kicks to a mule or bites to a dog?
52106Would there be any sense in saying that you ought either to speak or not to speak?
52106You say then,''What?
52106Zoroaster asked,"What is the food that fills the Religion of Mazda?"
52106[ 100] How, then, does the fact that two persons belong to the same totem influence their social relationships?
52106[ 104] Is not this, in all probability, an instance of acquired inversion?
52106[ 132] When their chief god"played"by thundering, the Amazulu said to him who was frightened,"Why do you start, because the lord plays?
52106[ 142] And would it not, in many cases, be impossible to find impartial arbiters?
52106[ 195] Indeed, had not God shown{ 280} indulgence for the offence committed by Lot when drunk?
52106[ 208] How, for instance, are we to deal with the various tribes of Australia?
52106[ 21] The question, however, is, Why was not his death avenged upon the actual culprit?
52106[ 286] Jeremy Taylor asks,"Who will not tell a harmless lie to save the life of his friend, of his child, of himself, of a good and brave man?
52106[ 30] Had not the Lord Himself commissioned them to attack, subdue, and destroy his enemies?
52106[ 47] How shall we explain this connection between religious beliefs and the duties of veracity and fidelity to promises?
52106[ 51] Is it not natural, then, that the savage should give like for like?
52106[ 66] During my wanderings in the remote forests of Northern Finland I was constantly welcomed with the phrase,"What news?"
52106[ 71] When Mungo Park asked some negroes, what became of the sun during the night?
52106[ 9] Porphyry asks,"Who does not know that to this day, in the great city of Rome, at the festival of Jupiter Latiaris, they cut the throat of a man?
52106[ Footnote 15: See_ infra_, on Suicide; Lasch,''Besitzen die Naturvölker ein persönliches Ehrgefühl?''
52106[ Footnote 165: Demosthenes(?
52106[ Footnote 39:_ Ibid._ p. 147_ sqq._''Why is Single Life becoming more General?''
52106[ Westminster, 1484?]
52106_ S.l._,[ 1834?].
52106and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?
52106are we not your children, do you not see our hunger?
52106dost thou see, O Sky?
52106he would answer{ 87}''Yes''; but if you asked the same man,''You are not old, are you?''
52106marry your own- sister- nagâ?''
52106or,"Is nothing wrong?"
52106rather than in the question, Why?
52106the Sinhalese interpreter is apt to say,''Do you marry your nagâ?''
52106they ask you,''to suffer either man or woman to languish any considerable{ 389} time under a heavy, motionless old age?
52106till seven times?"
52106will you have us to be silly creatures, like the sheep?''