Note 2 — Chapter I · THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE.
Reading edition
Blackstone, ‘Commentaries on the Laws of England,’ bk. II., ch. 3. The above example replaces that given in former editions. Another example may be found in his explanation of the origin of deodand, bk. I., ch. 8, as designed, in the blind days of popery, as an expiation for the souls of such as were snatched away by sudden death; see below, p. 287. [Note to 3rd ed.]