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The belief in a future life, p. 515 sq.--Notions as regards the disembodied soul,
p. 516.-The dead considered to have rights very similar to those they had
whilst alive, pp. 516-520.-The soul must not be killed or injured, p. 516 sq.
-Its living friends must positively contribute to its comfort and subsistence,

p. 517 sq.-The right of ownership does not cease with death, p. 518 sq.-

Robbery or violation committed at a tomb severely condemned, ibid.-Respect

must be shown for the honour and self-regarding pride of the dead, p. 519.

The dead demand obedience, p. 519 sq.-The sacredness attached to a will,

p. 519.-The rigidity of ancestral custom, p. 519 sq.-Duties to the dead that

arise from the fact of death itself, pp. 520-524.-The funeral, the rites con-

nected with it, and the mourning customs, largely regarded as duties to the

dead, ibid.-The duties to the dead influenced by the relationship between

the parties, p. 524 sq.-By the age and sex of the departed, pp. 525-527.-

By class distinctions, p. 527.-By moral distinctions, p. 527 sq.-The causes

from which the duties to the dead have sprung, pp. 528-549.-These duties

partly based on sympathetic resentment, p. 528.-The dead regarded as

guardians of their descendants, p. 529 sq.-But the ancestral guardian spirit

does not bestow his favours for nothing, p. 530 sq.-The dead more commonly

regarded as enemies than friends, pp. 531-534.—Explanation of the belief

in the irritable or malevolent character of the dead, p. 534 sq.-The fear of

death and the fear of the dead, pp. 535-538.-The conduct of the survivors

influenced by their beliefs regarding the character, activity, and polluting

influence of the dead, pp. 538-546.-The origin of funeral and mourning

customs, pp. 541-547.-Why practices connected with death which originally

sprang from self-regarding motives have come to be enjoined as duties,

p. 547 sq.-Why the duties to the dead are rarely extended to strangers,

p. 548 sq.-Explanation of the differences in the treatment of the dead which

depend upon age, sex, social position, and moral distinctions, p. 549.-The

duties to the departed become less stringent as time goes on, p. 549 sq.-The

duties to the dead affected by progress in intellectual culture, pp. 550-552-

The funeral sacrifice continued as a mark of respect or affection, p. 550.-

Offerings made to the dead become alms given to the poor, pp. 550 552

CHAPTER XLVI

CANNIBALISM

The prevalence of cannibalism, p. 553.-Various forms of it, p. 554.-Cannibal-

ism due to scarcity or lack of animal food, p. 555.-To gourmandise, pp.

555-557-To revenge, pp. 557-559.-The practice of eating criminals, p.

558 sq.-Cannibalism a method of making a dangerous individual harmless

after death, p. 559 sq.—Due to the idea that the cannibal, by eating the

supposed seat of a certain quality in a person, incorporates it with his own

system, pp. 560-562.-Cannibalism in connection with human sacrifice, p.

562 sq.-The eating of man-gods, p. 563 sq.-Other instances in which a super-

natural or medicinal effect is ascribed to human flesh or blood, pp. 564-566.-

Cannibalism as a covenant rite, p. 566 sq.-Special reasons given for the

practice of eating relatives or friends, pp. 567-569.-The cannibalism of

modern savages represented as the survival of an ancient practice which was

once universal in the human race, p. 569 sq.-Criticism of this theory, pp.

570-580.-Savages who feel the greatest dislike of cannibalism, p. 570 sq.-

Cannibals often anxious to deny that they are addicted to this practice, p.

572. The rapid extinction of it among certain savages, p. 572 sq.-Even

among peoples very notorious for cannibalism there are individuals who abhor

it, p. 573. The aversion to cannibalism may be due to sympathy for the dead,

p. 574.—In the first instance it is probably an instinctive feeling akin to those

feelings which regulate the diet of the various animal species, ibid.-The

eating of human flesh regarded with superstitious dread, pp. 574–576.—The

feeling of reluctance may be overcome by other motives and may be

succeeded by a taste for human flesh, p. 577 sq.—Early man probably not

addicted to cannibalism, pp. 578-580.-Cannibalism much less prevalent

among the lowest savages than among races somewhat more advanced in

culture, p. 578 sq.-Among some savages cannibalism known to be of
modern origin or to have spread in recent times, p. 579 sq.-The moral
valuation of cannibalism, p. 580 sq.

CHAPTER XLVII

THE BELIEF IN SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

Distinction between "natural" and "supernatural" phenomena, p. 582 sq.-Super-

natural mechanical energy, p. 583 sq.-Supernatural qualities attributed to the

mental constitution of animate beings, especially to their will, p. 584.-The

difference between religion and magic, ibid. The meaning of the word

religio, pp. 584-586.-That mystery is the essential characteristic of super-

natural beings is testified by language, p. 586 sq.—This testimony corroborated

by facts referring to the nature of such objects or individuals as are most

commonly worshipped, pp. 587-593.-Startling events ascribed to the activity

of invisible supernatural agents, p. 593 sq. —The origin of animism, p. 594 sq.—

A mind presupposes a body, p. 595 sq.-The animist who endows an inanimate

object with a soul regards the visible thing itself as its body, p. 596 sq.-The

origin of anthropomorphism, p. 597 sq.-The difference between men and

gods, p. 599.-Materiality at last considered a quality not becoming to a god,

PP. 599-601.

CHAPTER XLVIII

DUTIES TO GODS

Definition of the term "god," p. 602.-Gods have the rights to life and bodily
integrity, pp. 602-604.-Not necessarily considered immortal, p. 602 sq.-
The killing of totemic animals, p. 603 sq.-Divine animals killed as a religi-
ous or magical ceremony, pp. 604-606.-The killing of man-gods or divine
kings, pp. 606-610.—The right to bodily integrity granted to gods occasionally

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