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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...belief and unbelief. All epochs in which faith reigns supreme, under whatever form it may be, are bright, uplifting, and fruitful for contemporaries and posterity. All epochs, on the other hand, in which unbelief, in any form, gains a weak victory, even though temporarily boasting a sham glory, will pass away.' That belief is tremendously important in its influence on life may be illustrated from the history of primitive man. The moral education of man began in the form of taboo, or religious interdictions upon specified kinds of conduct. Taboo corresponds among primitive peoples to the thou-shalt-not aspect of the Mosaic code. Its efficiency is due to its being based upon the belief in severe penalties, even death, that will inevitably and automatically follow if the prescribed rules of conduct are broken. J. G. Frazer in one of the volumes of his monumental work in anthropology, The Golden Bough, has collected numerous instances where death has actually resulted from the violation of taboos, due wholly to the effect of the belief of the victims that they are doomed to die. For example, a Maori slave innocently ate tabooed food. Upon learning what he had done he became ill and died in a few hours as a result of suggestion. In one case a negro did not discover until four years after eating of a certain food that it was taboo, but when he did discover his offense he "immediately fell a-trembling, and suffered himself to be so far possessed with the effects of imagination, that he died in less than twenty-four hours.' Primitive taboos covered all sorts of conduct, and in the majority of cases they were not violated, since the belief in the severe consequences of violation acted as a strong restraining influence. The fatal consequences, however, in innume...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236183521
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236183525
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 644 gr


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