XIII. KINSHIP, BLOOD REVENGE, PRIMITIVE JUSTICE, PEACE UNIONS 493 XIV. UNCLEANNESS AND THE EVIL EYE 509 XV. THE MORES CAN MAKE ANYTHING RIGHT AND PREVENT CONDEMNATION OF ANYTHING 521 XVI. SACRAL HARLOTRY, CHILD SACRIFICE 533 XVII. POPULAR SPORTS, EXHIBITIONS, DRAMA 560 XVIII. ASCETICISM 605 XIX. EDUCATION, HISTORY 628 XX. LIFE POLICY, VIRTUE VS. SUCCESS 639 LIST OF BOOKS 655 (Titles are under the name of the author, or the leading word of the title) INDEX 671 FOLKWAYS CHAPTER I FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS OF THE FOLKWAYS AND OF THE MORES Definition and mode of origin of the folkways.--The folkways are a societal force.--Folkways are made unconsciously.--Impulse and instinct; primeval stupidity; magic.--The strain of improvement and consistency.--The aleatory element.--All origins are lost in mystery.--Spencer on primitive custom.-- Good and bad luck; ills of life; goodness and happiness.-- Illustrations.--Immortality and compensation.--Tradition and its restraints.--The concepts of "primitive society"; "we-groups" and "others-groups."--Sentiments in the in-group towards out-groups.--Ethnocentrism.--Illustrations.-- Patriotism.--Chauvinism.--The struggle for existence and the competition of life; antagonistic cooperation.--Four motives: hunger, love, vanity, fear.--The process of making folkways.-- Suggestion and suggestibility.--Suggestion in education.-- Manias.--Suggestion in politics.--Suggestion and criticism.-- Folkways based on false inferences.--Harmful folkways.--How "true" and "right" are found.--The folkways are right; rights; morals.--The folkways are true.--Relations of world philosophy to folkways.--Definition of the mores.--Taboos.--No primitive philosophizing; myths; fables; notion of social welfare.--The imaginative element.--The ethical policy and the success policy.--Recapitulation.--Scope and method of the mores.-- Integration of the mores of a group or age.--Purpose of the present work.--Why use the word "mores."--The mores are a directive force.--Consistency in the mores.--The mores of subgroups.--What are classes?--Classes rated by societal value.--Class; race; group solidarity.--The masses and the mores.--Fallacies about the classes and the masses.--Action of the masses on ideas.--Organization of the masses.--Institutions of civil liberty.--The common man.--The "people"; popular impulses.--Agitation.--The ruling element in the masses.--The