Principles of SociologyD. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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actions activities Africa ancestor-worship ancient Andamanese animals arise Aryans become belief Bhūtas body Bushmen carried caused centres characterized Chibchas chief civilized cluster co-operation common compound connexion Dahomey dead developed division domestic Dyaks endogamy established evidence evolution evolved exist exogamy fact father female Fijians fravashis Fuegians functions furnished further ghosts groups habitually Hence higher Hoont husbands implied increase Indians individual organism infer inferior kind kindred king kinship labour less living Lond M'Lennan male marriage married Max Müller ment militant type monogamy natural offspring original parents patriarchal person Peru political polyandry polygyny primitive produced races racterized regarded regulating system relations respect Samoa savages says sexes shown Sir Henry Maine Sir John Lubbock social aggregate social organism societies spirit stages structures subordination supposed sustentation tion traits Trans tribes uncivilized union units unlike Veddahs vols wife wives women worship
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Page 849 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 727 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.
Page 635 - If she entertains any suspicion of their designs she defends herself with stones, and often inflicts wounds on the young men, even though she does not dislike the lover, for, according to custom, the more she struggles, bites, kicks, cries, and strikes, the more she is applauded ever after by her own companions.
Page 591 - For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN' called a COMMONWEALTH,* or STATE (in Latin CIVITAS), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended...
Page 725 - Perhaps in no way is the moral progress of mankind more clearly shown, than by contrasting the position of women among savages with their position among the most advanced of the civilized.
Page 462 - It undergoes continuous growth. As it grows, its parts become unlike: it exhibits increase of structure. The unlike parts simultaneously assume activities of unlike kinds. These activities are not simply different, but their differences are so related as to make one another possible. The reciprocal aid thus given causes mutual dependence of the parts.
Page 736 - Pueblos, the usual order of courtship is reversed ; when a girl is disposed to marry she does not wait for a young man to propose to her, but selects one to her own liking and consults her father, who visits the parents of the youth and acquaints them with his daughter's wishes.
Page 654 - If there be four or five brothers, and one of them, being old enough, gets married, his wife claims all the other brothers as her husbands, and as they successively attain manhood, she consorts with them ; or if the wife has one or more younger sisters, they in turn, on attaining a marriageable age, become the wives of their sister's husband or husbands, and thus in a family of several brothers, there may be, according to circumstances, only one wife for them all, or many ; but, one or more, they...
Page 803 - And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Page 448 - Thus we consistently regard a society as an entity, because, though formed of discrete units, a certain concreteness in the aggregate of them is implied by the general persistence of the arrangements among them throughout the area occupied.