I cannot see why the men who discovered the use of fire and selected the wild forms of certain animals for domestication and of vegetables for cultivation should not find out that children of unsound constitutions were born of nearly related parents. On Early Law and Custom - Page 228by Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine - 1890 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1883 - 456 pages
...minimum or may have come to be doubted. But what is invaluable to a savage is, I take it, what we a 2 should call a good constitution ; such a constitution...parents. If such children, left to themselves, are really weaklv. ยป <t ' the fact would be forced on notice by the stern process of natural selection, affecting... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1886 - 442 pages
...minimum or may have coiue to be doubted. But what is invaluable to a savage is, I take it, what we er 2 should call a good constitution ; such a constitution...themselves, are really weakly, the fact would be forced ou notice by the stern process of natural selection, affecting either the individual or the tribe.... | |
| Edward Westermarck - Social Science - 1894 - 678 pages
...nevertheless, a horror of incest is developed most strongly.2 Sir Henry Maine, on the other hand, thinks that the men who discovered the use of fire and selected...for domestication and of vegetables for cultivation, might also have been able to find out that children of unsound constitution were born of nearly related... | |
| Edward Westermarck - Ethnology - 1901 - 676 pages
...nevertheless, a horror of incest is developed most strongly.2 Sir Henry Maine, on the other hand, thinks that the men who discovered the use of fire and selected...for domestication and of vegetables for cultivation, might also have been able to find out that children of unsound constitution were born of nearly related... | |
| George Elliott Howard - Social Science - 1904 - 500 pages
...whom, nevertheless, a horror of incest is developed most strongly." * Sir Heury Maine, on the contrary, "cannot see why the men who discovered the use of...domestication and of vegetables for cultivation should not i SPENCEB, op. cit., I,636 S. 2LUBBOCE, op. cit., 133. 3 MOBO AN, Proceedings of the American Academy... | |
| George Byron Louis Arner - Social Science - 1908 - 120 pages
...unions, and have apparently assumed that no proof was necessary. For example, Sir Henry Sumner Maine " cannot see why the men who discovered the use of fire,...cultivation, should not find out that children of unsound constitution were born of nearly related parents." l 1 Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 228. Much space... | |
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