Note 199 — Chapter VII · CUSTOMS AND LAWS AS EXPRESSIONS OF MORAL IDEAS

Steinmetz, Ethnol. Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe, ii. 340 sq. The connection between punishment and religion has been emphasised by Prof. Durkheim (Division du travail social, p. 97 sqq.) and M. Mauss (‘La religion et les origines du droit pénal,’ in Revue de l’histoire des religions, vols. xxxiv. and xxxv.). But Prof. Durkheim exaggerates the importance of this connection by assuming (p. 97) that “le droit pénal à l’origine était essentiellement religieux.”