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The origin and development of the moral ideas

Note 57 — Chapter XXXIV · THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALTRUISTIC SENTIMENT

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Cunow, op. cit. pp. 97, 136. Dr. Stirling says (Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia, ‘Anthropology,’ p. 43) that the laws arising out of the “class” (clan) divisions “have extraordinary force and are, in general, implicitly obeyed whether in respect of actual marriage, illicit connections, or social relations”; but I find no further reference to these “social relations.”

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