Chapter 157

Aestheticemotions, i.326

—— judgments, i.8

Affection. SeeAltruisticsentiment;Conjugal,Filial,Fraternal,Marital,Maternal,Paternal,Socialaffection

Age, restrictions in diet depending on, ii.319sq.SeeChildren,Old age,Old persons,Seniority

Agriculturaltribes, the position of women among, i.660sq.;slavery among, i.673,674,681;social aggregates of, ii.201;sympathy for domestic animals among, ii.506, seeOxen

Agriculture, originally a feminine pursuit, i.634,635 n.4,637;moral valuation of, ii.273–277,280,402

Albinos, religious veneration of, ii.590

AllSouls, ii.550

All-father. SeeSupremebeings

Alliance, prohibition of marriage between relations by, ii.369,377

Alms, connection between sacrifices offered to gods and, i.565–569;between fasting and the giving of, ii.316–318;between offerings to the dead and, ii.550–552;to be given with an ungrudging eye, and not before witnesses, i.594.SeeCharity

Altruisticsentiment, the, its origin and development, ch. xxxiv. (ii.186–228); i.94,95,110–114,129,373,468,559, ii.494–506,510–514.SeeConjugal,Filial,Fraternal,Marital,Maternal,Paternal,Socialaffection

Ancestors. SeeDead

Anger, the nature and origin of, i.21–23,30,38–42;in animals, i.22, ii.51;in children, i.22sq.;towards inanimate things, i.26,27,260–263,315;appeased by repentance, i.87;sympathetic resentment produced by the cognition of the signs of, i.114sq.;injuries inflicted in, i.290–298,311,316sq.;a cause of suicide, ii.233

Animals, regard for the lower, ch. xliv. (ii.490–514), i.11sq.;anger in, i.22, ii.51;revenge taken upon, i.26,27,251–253,255,256,258;revenge taken by, i.37sq.;self-regarding pride in, i.39, ii.137sq.;retributive kindly emotion in, i.94;sympathetic resentment in, i.112, ii.52;killing of sacred, i.227, ii.603–606,609;of totemic, ii.210,603,604,606;of various kinds of, seeKilling;eating of totemic, i.227, ii.210,211,323,324,606;credited with a conscience, i.249–251;not responsible for their acts, i.249–251;treated as responsible agents, i.251– 260,264,308;believed to take vengeance upon men, i.252,258, ii.491,497,500,502,504,603;subject to regular punishment, ii.253–260,264,308;sexual intercourse between men and, i.253sq., ii.409,749;believed to be rewarded or punished after death, i.258sq.;regarded as on a footing of equality with man, i.258–260, ii.494,510;non–moral resentment in the case of injuries inflicted by, i.316;sacrificed instead of human victims, i.469sq.;sacrificed for the purpose of saving the lives of men or of other animals, i.469sq., ii.616sq.;their desire to appropriate and to keep that which has been appropriated, ii.51;maternal affection among, ii.186–190,193;paternal affection among, ii.189,190,193;conjugal attachment among, ii.191sq.;abstinence from eating various kinds of, ii.319–335;from eating any kind of, ii.335–338,499;belief in the transmigration of human souls into, ii.324,328,338,490,496,500,504,516,517,693,709sq.;homosexual intercourse among, ii.456,466,475 n.2;their fear of strange phenomena, ii.582sq.;worship of, ii.590,598;sheltered by sacred places, ii.627–629,631,635

Animism, ii.595–597

Annihilationof the soul, belief in the, ii.236,515,516,559,565,580,679

Anthropomorphism, ii.595,597–600

Antipathies, disinterested, i.116,117,533,713sq., ii.113,166,185,227,262,266–268,291,334,335,351,368,372–375,381,382,403,404,434,439,440,483,484,744–746

Antivivisectionists, ii.512,514

Apes, the man-like, paternal care among, ii.189sq.;the duration of their conjugal unions, ii.192;not gregarious, ii.195;chiefly monogamous, ii.391.SeeMonkeys

Arbitration, i.368sq.

Arms, stealing of, i.287, ii.14;regarded with superstitious veneration, i.506;oaths taken upon, i.506, ii.119–121

Arson, i.187,188,293,676, ii.633

Asceticism, ii.281,315–318,355–363,421

Astronomicalchanges, abstinence from work connected with, ii.284–288,747;fasting connected with, ii.309–315

Asylums, ii.628–638; i.221,224,295–297,307,308,380,427,579,580,585,668,669,690,692,696

Atheism, ii.643sq.

Atonement.Expiation,Expiatorysacrifice

—— the day (fast) of, i.65, ii.311,312,316,357–359.617

Attemptsto commit crimes, i.200,241– 247,374

”BAD,” analysis of the concept, i.134

Badger-baiting, ii.509

Bananas, abstinence from, ii.321

Banishment, as a punishment, i.46,58,172,173,224,225,227,228,267,287,312,424,601, ii.4,6,7,10,12,74,123 n.1,331,424,425,452,475 n.10,478,525

Baptism, i.55,411,416,417,666, ii.295,417,721–723

Barrennessof a wife, human sacrifices offered in cases of, i.457sq.;a cause of polygyny, ii.388

Bear-baiting, ii.508–510

Beating, as a religious rite, ii.294,357– 359

Beef, abstinence from, ii.327,330

Bees, prohibition of killing, ii.490

Beliefs, as subjects of moral judgments, i.215sq.

Benefitof Clergy, i.491

Benevolence, ch. xxxiii. (ii.153–185). SeeCharity,Hospitality

Bestiality, i.253sq., ii.409,749

Birds, defending their nests, ii.51;paternal care among, ii.189sq.;the duration of conjugal unions among, ii.192

—— of night, abstinence from eating, ii.333

—— of prey, prohibition of eating, ii.321

Blasphemy, ii.639,640,719

Blessings, materialistic conception of, i.98,562;pronounced byrecipients of gifts, i.561–565;gods appealed to in, i.562,564sq., ii.686,731;of strangers, i.581–584, ii.446;of parents, i.621–627;of old persons, i.626;in salutations, ii.151

Blood, effusion of, at funerals, i.26,27,476, ii.544,545,547;abstinence from, i.187, ii.334sq.;as a religious rite, i.470sq., ii.294,557;pollution of, i.225,232,233,375–382, ii.256sq.n.2,262,714;shedding of, prohibited in sacred places, i.380, ii.635;offered to the dead, i.475sq.;drunk or licked in blood-revenge, i.483sq.;as a conductor of curses, i.586,587,591, ii.69,118–121,208,209,566,567,618–622,687–689;primitive ideas concerning, i.664 n.1;oaths taken upon, ii.118–121,621,622,687–689;supernatural or medicinal effect ascribed to the partaking of human, ii.564sq.SeeCannibalism

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