causes were set aside. The
cases would then become less frequent, especially the cases of
infanticide and killing the old. Then, if cases which seemed to call for
reemployment of old customs arose, they could be satisfied only against
some repugnance. Men who were not hard pressed by the burden of life
might then refrain from infanticide or killing the old. They yielded to
the repugnance rather than to the dislike of hardship. Later, when
greater power in the struggle for existence was won the infants and the
old were spared, and the old customs were forgotten. Then they came to
be regarded with horror, and the mores protected the infants and the
old. The stories of the French peasantry which come to us nowadays show
that the son is often fully ready in mind and will to kill his old
father if the mores and the law did not restrain him.

[901] Lippert, _Kulturgesch._, I, 229.

[902] Ancient India may be an exception.

[903] _Ethnog. of India_, I, 95.

[904] Exod. xxi. 7.

[905] Rosenberg, _Geelvinkbaai_, 91.

[906] Krieger, _Neu-Guinea_, 390.

[907] _Ibid._, 165.

[908] Pfeil, _Aus der Suedsee_, 31.

[909] _Melanesians_, 229.

[910] _Sarawak_, I, 101.

[911] _Dajaks_, 37.

[912] Snouck-Hurgronje, _De Atjehers_, I, 73.

[913] _Bijdragen tot T. L. en V.-kunde_, XXXV, 79.

[914] _Ztsft. f. Ethnol._, XXVIII, 186.

[915] Kubary, _Nukuoro_, 9, 12, 14.

[916] JAI, XVIII, 291.

[917] _Austral. Assoc. Adv. Sci._, 1892, 704.

[918] _Globus_, LXXXVIII, 164, after Joly.

[919] _Three First English Books about America_, 237.

[920] _Globus_, LXXXI, 4.

[921] Spix and Martius, _Travels in Brazil_, II, 77.

[922] _Ethnog. Brasil._, 231.

[923] Grinnell, _Cheyenne Woman Customs_, 15; _N.S. Amer.
Anthrop._; IV, 13.

[924] Paulitschke, _Ethnog. N. O. Afr._, I, 172.

[925] Fritsch, _Eingeb. Sued-Afr._, 96.

[926] Zimmer, _Altind. Leben_, 333.

[927] _Republic_, V, 9.

[928] _Politics_, VII, 16.

[929] Rudeck, _Oeffentl. Sittlichkeit in Deutschland_, 181.

[930] Temesvary, _Volksbraeuche und Aberglauben in der
Gebuertshilfe in Ungarn_, 12-14.

[931] Ratzel, _Voelkerkunde_, II, 59.

[932] Eyre, _Cent. Aust._, II, 324; Spencer and Gillen, _Cent.
Aust._, 51, 264.

[933] JAI, XIII, 137.

[934] Smyth, _Victoria_, I, 52.

[935] _Novara-Reise_, I, 32.

[936] Dawson, _West Victoria_,