Chapter VI · Notes
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The Scope of Social Anthropology Notes
“In boundless oceans, never to be passed
By navigators uninform’d as they,
Or plough’d perhaps by British bark again.”
The Task, book i. 629 sqq.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This happened at Ballyvadlea, in the county of Tipperary, in March 1895. For details of the evidence given at the trial of the murderers, seNote 2 · This happened at Norwich in June 1902. See The People’s Weekly Journal for Norfolk, July 19, 1902, p. 8.Note 3 · I say “an enlightened minority,” because in any large community there are always many minorities, and some of them are very far from enlightNote 4 · E. Renan et M. Berthelot, Correspondance (Paris, 1898), pp. 75 sq.Note 5 · J. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson9 (London, 1822), iv. 315.Note 6 · It is only of late years that the importance of savagery as a document of human history has been understood. From what I have said I hope yo