t, not a violation of it.
Hence it does not prove that jealousy does not exist."[1164] The
Veddahs are very careful of their wives. They will not allow
strangers in their villages, and do not even let their brothers
approach their wives or offer them food.[1165] They have pure
marital customs. Their neighbors, the Singhalese, have not pure
marital customs and are not jealous.[1166] In the East Indies,
not in all tribes but in many, betrothed persons are separated
until their marriage.[1167] Kubary says that the jealousy of the
Palau Islanders is less a sign of wounded feelings than of care
for external propriety.[1168] An oa ape (a gibbon) showed
jealousy whenever a little Malay girl, his playmate, was taken
away from him.[1169] Wellhausen[1170] says that "the suspicious
jealousy, not of the love of their wives, but of their own
property rights, is a prominent characteristic of the Arabs, of
which they are proud." The blood kin guard their property right
in the maiden as jealously as the man guards his property right
in his wife. A Papuan kills an adulterer, not on account of his
own honor, but to punish an infringement of his property rights.
The former idea is foreign to him. He does, however, show
jealousy of a handsome young man who captivates the women.[1171]
In 1898 a pair of wolves were kept as public pets in the Capitol
at Rome. The male killed a cub, his own offspring, out of
jealousy of the affection of the female for it. Then the female
died of grief.[1172] These cases show very different forms of
jealousy. The jealousy of husband and wife is similar, but not
the same as any one of them, and it differs at different stages
of civilization. It depends on the exclusiveness and intenseness
of devotion which spouses are held to owe each other. Beasts do
not manifest an emotion of jealousy so uniform or universal as
Darwin assumes in his argument, nor any sentiment like that of a
half-civilized man. The latter can always coerce the woman to
himself, but jealousy arises when the woman is left free to
dispose of her own devotion or attention, and she is supposed to
direct it to her husband, out of affection and preference. It is
the breach of this affection and preference which constitutes the
gravamen.

+372. Virginity.+ We have many examples of peoples amongst whom girls
are entirely free until married, on