[144.2] Franz Boas, in _Seventh Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada_, p. 13 (_Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science_, Cardiff, 1891, separate reprint). [145.1] James Teit, “The Thompson Indians of British Columbia,” pp. 332 _sq._ (_The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History_, April, 1900). [146.1] James Teit, “The Lillooet Indians” (Leyden and New York, 1906), p. 271 (_The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History_). [147.1] Franz Boas, in _Fifth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada_, pp. 43 _sq._ (_Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science_, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1889, separate reprint). [148.1] Father Guis (de la Congrégation du Sacré-Cœur d’Issoudun, Missionnaire en Nouvelle-Guinée), “Les Canaques, mort-deuil,” _Les Missions catholiques_, xxxiv. (Lyons, 1902) pp. 208 _sq._ [149.1] Elsewhere I have illustrated the fear of the dead as it is displayed in funeral customs (“On certain Burial Customs as illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xv. (1886) pp. 64 _sqq._). [150.1] J. J. M. de Groot, _The Religious System of China_, iv. (Leyden, 1901) pp. 436 _sqq._, especially pp. 450, 464. [150.2] J. J. M. de Groot, _The Religious System of China_, iv. 450 _sq._ [151.1] J. J. M. de Groot, _The Religious System of China_, iv. 457-460. [151.2] The Greek orator Antiphon observes that the presence of a homicide pollutes the whole city and brings the curse of barrenness on the land (Antiphon, ed. F. Blass, Leipsic, 1871, pp. 13, 15, 30). See further L. R. Farnell, _The Evolution of Religion_ (London, 1905), pp. 139 _sqq._ Chapter VI Notes [156.1] Lucian, _Hermotimus_, 64, κατὰ τοὺς Ἀρεοπαγίτας αὐτὸ ποιοῦντα, οἳ ἐν νυκτὶ καὶ σκότῳ δικάζουσιν, ὡς μὴ ἐς τοὺς λέγοντας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐς τὰ λεγόμενα ἀποβλέποιεν: _id._, _De domo_, 18, εἰ μὴ τύχοι τις παντελῶς τυφλὸς ὢν ἢ ἐν νυκτὶ ὥσπερ ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ποιοῖτο τὴν ἀκρόασιν. The Scope of Social Anthropology Notes [166.1] This happened at Ballyvadlea, in the county of Tipperary, in March 1895. For details of the evidence given at the trial of the murderers, see “The ‘Witch-burning’ at Clonmel,” _Folk-lore_, vi. (1895) pp. 373-384. [166.2] This happened at Norwich in June 1902. See _The People’s Weekly Journal for Norfolk_, July 19, 1902, p. 8. [167.1] I say “_an_ enlightened minority,” because in any large community there are always many minorities, and some of them are very far from enlightened. It is possible to be below as well as above the average level of our fellows. [170.1] E. Renan et M. Berthelot, _Correspondance_ (Paris, 1898), pp. 75 _sq._ [173.1] J. Boswell, _Life of Samuel Johnson_9 (London, 1822), iv. 315. [174.1] “_In boundless oceans, never to be passed_ _By navigators uninform’d as they,_ _Or plough’d perhaps by British bark again._” _The Task_, book i. 629 _sqq._