The origin and development of the moral ideas — John Shaqi
The origin and development of the moral ideasWestermarck, Edward
Philosophy
The origin and development of the moral ideas
Westermarck, Edward
Ethics; Ethics -- History; Prehistoric peoples
[Footnote 36: Besides the authorities quoted _infra_, see Leuschner,
in Steinmetz, _Rechtsverhältnisse von eingeborenen Völkern in Afrika
und Ozeanien_, (Bakwiri); _ibid._ p. 49 (Banaka and Bapuku); Rautanen,
_ibid._ p. 341 (Ondonga); Walter, _ibid._ p. 390 (natives of Nossi-Bé
and Mayotte, near Madagascar); von Langsdorf, _Voyages and Travels_,
i. 132 (Nukahivans); Forbes, _A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern
Archipelago_, p. 473 (Timorese); Foreman, _Philippine Islands_, p. 213
(Igorrotes of Luzon); Kovalewsky, in _Jour. Anthr. Inst._ xxv. 113
(people of Daghestan); _Idem_, _Coutume contemporaine et loi
ancienne_, p. 248 _sq._ (Ossetes); Merzbacher, _Aus den Hochregionen
des Kaukasus_, ii. 51 (Khevsurs).]
[Footnote 37: Bridges, in _A Voice for South America_, xiii. 207
(Fuegians). Dorsey, 'Omaha Sociology,' in _Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn._
iii. 369. Ridley, in _Jour. Anthr. Inst._ ii. 268 (Kamilaroi in
Australia). Godwin-Austen, _ibid._ ii. 394 (Garo Hill tribes).]
[Footnote 38: von Martins, _Beiträge zur Ethnographie Amerika's_,
i. 127 _sqq._ (Brazilian Indians). Crawfurd, _op. cit._ iii. 124
(natives of Celebes). Kohler, in _Zeitschr. f. vgl. Rechtswiss._
vii. 383 (Goajiros of Columbia). _Ibid._ vii. 376 (Papuans of New
Guinea). Curr, _The Australian Race_, i. 70. Scaramucci and Giglioli,
'Notizie sui Danakil,' in _Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia_,
xiv. 39. Leuschner, in Steinmetz, _Rechtsverhältnisse_, p. 23 (Bakwiri).
_Ibid._ p. 49 (Banaka and Bapuku).]
"Among the Fuegians," says Mr. Bridges, "etiquette and custom
require that all the relatives of a murdered person should . . . visit
their displeasure upon every connection of the manslayers, each
personally." The avengers of blood would by no means be satisfied with
a party of natives if they should actually deliver up into their hands
a manslayer, or kill him themselves, "but would yet exact from all the
murderer's friends tribute or infliction of injuries with sticks or
stones."[39] Among the Indians of British Columbia and Vancouver
Island, "grudges are handed down from father to son for generations,
and friendly relations are never free from the risk of being
interrupted."[40] Among the Greenlanders, the revenge for a murder
generally "costs the executioner himself, his children, cousins, or
other relatives their lives; or if these are inaccessible, some other
acquaintance in the neighbourhood."[41] Among the Maoris,
blood-revenge might be taken on any relative of the homicide, "no
matter how distant."[42] In Tana, {32} revenge "is often sought in the
death of the brother, or some other near relative of the culprit."[43]
Among the Kabyles, "la vengeance peut porter sur chacun des membres de
la famille du meurtrier, quel qu'il soit."[44] The Bedouins, according
to Burckhardt, "claim the blood not only from the actual homicide, but
from all his relations; and it is these claims that constitute the
right of _thár_, or the blood-revenge."[45] Among the people of Ibrim,
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