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
in Nubia, on the other hand, the same traveller observes, "it is not
considered as sufficient to retaliate upon any person within the fifth
degree of consanguinity, as among the Bedouins of Arabia; only the
brother, son, or first cousin can supply the place of the
murderer."[46] Traces of collective responsibility in connection with
blood-revenge are found among the Hebrews.[47] It has prevailed, or
still prevails, among the Japanese[48] and Coreans,[49] the
Persians[50] and Hindus,[51] the ancient Greeks[52] and Teutons.[53]
It was a rule among the Welsh[54] and the Scotch in former days,[55]
and is so still in Corsica,[56] Albania,[57] and among some of the
Southern Slavs.[58] In Montenegro, if a homicide who cannot be caught
himself has no relatives, revenge is sometimes taken on some
inhabitant of the village or district to which he belongs, or even on
a person who only is of the same religion and nationality as the
murderer.[59] In Albania, under similar circumstances, the victim may
be a person who has had nothing else to do with the offender than that
he has perhaps once been speaking to him.[60]
[Footnote 39: Bridges, in _South American Missionary Magazine_,
xiii. 151 _sqq._]
[Footnote 40: Macfie, _Vancouver Island and British Columbia_, p. 470.]
[Footnote 41: Cranz, _History of Greenland_, i. 178.]
[Footnote 42: Shortland, _Traditions and Superstitions of the New
Zealanders_, p. 213 _sq._ _Cf._ _ibid._ p. 218 _sq._]
[Footnote 43: Turner, _Samoa_, p. 317.]
[Footnote 44: Hanoteau and Letourneux, _La Kabylie_, iii. 61.]
[Footnote 45: Burckhardt, _Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys_, p. 85.
See, also, Layard, _Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon_,
p. 306; Lane, _Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians_, i. 133.]
[Footnote 46: Burckhardt, _Travels in Nubia_, p. 128.]
[Footnote 47: _2 Samuel_, xiv. 7. _Cf._ _ibid._ xxi.]
[Footnote 48: Dautremer, 'The Vendetta or Legal Revenge in Japan,' in
_Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan_, xiii. 84.]
[Footnote 49: Griffis, _Corea_, p. 227.]
[Footnote 50: Spiegel, _Erânische Alterthumskunde_, iii. 687. Polak,
_Persien_, ii. 96.]
[Footnote 51: Dubois, _Description of the Character, Manners, and
Customs of the People of India_, p. 195.]
[Footnote 52: Leist, _Alt-arisches Jus Gentium_, p. 424.]
[Footnote 53: _Gotlands-Lagen_, 13.]
[Footnote 54: Walter, _Das alte Wales_, p. 138.]
[Footnote 55: Mackintosh, _History of Civilisation in Scotland_,
ii. 279.]
[Footnote 56: Gregorovius, _Wanderings in Corsica_, i. 179.]
[Footnote 57: Gop[vc]evi['c], _**Oberalbanien und seine Liga_,
p. 324 _sqq._]
[Footnote 58: Miklosich, 'Die Blutrache bei den Slaven,' in
_Denkschriften der kaiserl. Akademie d. Wissensch. Philos.-histor.
Classe_, Vienna, xxxvi. 131, 146 _sq._ Krauss, _Sitte und Brauch der
Südslaven_, p. 39.]
[Footnote 59: Lago, _Memorie sulla Dalmazia_, ii. 90.]
[Footnote 60: Gop[vc]evi['c], _op. cit._ p. 325.]
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