Chapter 167

Poverty, estimation of, i.556, ii.280sq.;a cause of uncleanliness, ii.351;monogamy associated with, ii.392

Prayer, ii.653–659;for remission of sin, i.49,54,55,228sq., ii.654,655.72,707;purification preparatory to, i.380sq., ii.352,353,358,359,415.416,418sq.;development of a curse or a blessing into a, i.564sq., ii.66–68,120–123,658,686–690,731;almsgiving connected with, i.567sq.;forbidden to women, i.664,667 n.1;used as greeting, ii.150;fasting an appendage to, ii.316sq.;magic efficacy ascribed to, ii.353,418,419,656–659,706,712;continence a preparation for, ii.417–419

Preparation, acts of, i.243–246

Prescription, ii.40,41,52sq.

Pride, condemnation of, ii.144sq.SeeSelf-regarding pride

Priestesses, forbidden to marry or to have intercourse with men, ii.406–408,412–414,420;continence compulsory on women who wish to become, ii.419;prostitution of, ii.443sq.;asylums, ii.637sq.;prohibited from taking an oath, ii.638

Priests, forbidden to take an oath, i.58, ii.638;to engage in warfare,i.348,381;to shed human blood, i.381sq.;to take part in a capital charge, i.381,382,493;to engage in hunting, ii.506;the law of torture relating to, i.523sq.;curses of, i.563;enslaving of children of incontinent, i.700;certain foods forbidden to, or rejected by, ii.322,329,333,338;forbidden to marry and to have intercourse with women, ii.405–409,412,414,418–421;eunuch, ii.408,414,488 n.6;forbidden to contract a second marriage, ii.412;to marry widows, ii.412,420;to marry harlots or divorced wives, ii.420;taboos imposed upon, ii.417sq.;continence compulsory on persons who wish to become, ii.419;temporary continence compulsory on, ii.419sq.;the punishment of unchastity in the daughters of, ii.420;represented as corrupters of domestic virtue, ii.432;their celibacy a cause of homosexual practices, ii.467;boys kept as, ii.473;used as temple prostitutes, ii.473,488;cannibalism of, ii.563,574;their residences asylums, ii.630,634,637;opposing sorcery, ii.652;regarded as manifestations of gods, ii.657,709;encouraging the belief in the magic efficacy of prayer, ii.658sq.SeeBenefitof Clergy;cf.Magicians

Primogeniture, ii.45,46,48,55sq.

Promiscuity, the theory of, ii.396

Promises. SeeGoodfaith

Property, the right of, ch. xxviii.sq.(ii.1–71);forfeiture of, as a punishment, i.47, ii.254;acquired by a successful duel, i.498,503, ii.9;of wives, i.632,637–641,643,645,661, ii.28–31,41;of women, i.661, ii.28–30,41;of slaves, i.677,684,688,cf.Peculiumof slaves;of the dead, i.399, ii.44,518,539sq., seeInheritance,Wills;of supernatural beings, ii.626sq.;supernatural beings as guardians of, ii.59–69,669,675–677,679,684,686,699,700,705,714,717,732

Prostitution, i.608, ii.428–431,437,439–446;religious, ii.443–446,488;of men, ii.459–462,463,476,478,488

Provocation, i.290–298,311,316sq.

Prudence, i.560,581,715, ii.52,59,114,124,176,185,265–268,331,332,334.335,342,428,497,539,547,548,660

Puberty, girls at, ii.307sq.

Publicapproval, the prototype of moral approval, i.9,122,129

—— disapproval, the prototype of moral disapproval, i.9,119–122

Pulse, abstinence from, ii.322,cf.ii.430sq.

Punishment, inflicted on others than the culprit, i.43–48,69sq.;restricted to the culprit, i.70–72;essentially an expression of the moral indignation of the society which inflicts it, i.79,89–91,169,185,198–201;theories as to the proper object of, i.79–91;regarded as a means of eliminating the criminal, i.80–82;as a deterrent, i.80–84,88–91;as a means of reforming the criminal, i.80–91;defined, i.82,169sq.;the limited efficiency of, as a deterrent, i.90 n.1;a source of moral disapproval, i.115;the relation between indemnification and, i.168sq.;among savages, i.170–177;transition from revenge to, i.180–185;the opinion that determent actually is or has been the chief object of, i.185–200;the increasing severity of, i.186–198;inflicted on criminals in public, i.191sq.;of unintentional injuries, i.219,221–226,231,232,235–240;of attempts to commit crimes, i.241–247,374;of acts of preparation, i.243–246;of bare intentions, i.245;inflicted on animals, i.253–260,264,308;on inanimate things, i.261–264,308;of injuries committed by children, i.265–269;by old persons, i.266sq.;by lunatics, i.271–277,298sq.;by idiots, i.273;in drunkenness, i.279–282;inflicted upon the offending member, i.311,312,513,518,519,521sq., ii.9,13,74,84,123 n.1,143 n.1;from a deterministic point of view, i.320sq.;influenced by rank, i.430–433,491,518,519,524, ii.19,20,58,142,143,448–450;corporal, i.520–525;suicide committed out of fear of, ii.233;redeems the sufferer frompunishment in a future existence, ii.360;inflicted on gods, ii.610.For various kinds of punishment seeBanishment,Cannibalism(as a punishment),Emasculation,Mutilation,Outlawry,Property(forfeiture of),Serfdom(as a punishment),Shame(putting offenders to),Slavery(as a punishment)

Punishmentin a future existence. SeeFuture life

——of death, i.491–496;among savages, i.188–190,195–197;as a kind of human sacrifice, i.440,471sq.;suicide as an alternative to, ii.243;inflicted for a variety of crimes, i.44–46,171,172,174,177,186–197,253,254,287,306,311,312,331,383–386,404,407,409,412,416,419,420,423,424,429–433,439,440,491,492,495,496,508,509,513,516,518,685, ii.4,5,7–9,12–15,19,96,140–142,256 n.2,276,331,366–368,378,406–408,420,424–426,428,429,431,442,447–450,453,474,475 n.10,477–482,497,558,640,647,650–652

Purificatoryceremonies, i.53–57,69,233,375–377,379–381,625, ii.256sq.n.2,257 n.5,294,295,328,352–354,358,359,415,416,472 n.7,476,538,545,726

RAIN, human sacrifices offered for the purpose of producing, i.449–451;certain other methods of procuring, ii.315,361

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