Note 57 — Chapter II · THE DAWN OF MORALITY: CONSCIENCE IN THE KINSHIP GROUP
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Among some uncivilized peoples, however, where the population is thin and there is little competition wars are unknown. “To the Greenlander ... war is incomprehensible and repulsive, a thing for which their language has no word” (Westermarck, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (1906), vol. i, p. 334).