Among savages in nearly all parts of the world the boy or girl at puberty is initiated into the mystery of manhood or of womanhood, into the duties and the privileges of the adult members of the tribe.
If we leave savages out of the question and return to Europe, it is still instructive to find that among those peoples who live under the most primitive conditions much the same state of things may be found as among savages.
Among savages, and no doubt in primitive societies generally, the social reaction against injurious or even unusual acts on the part of individuals is regulated by the binding force of custom.
Among savages, the boys are also most often the property of the father, who has the right to sell them and even to put them to death.
Among savages in general, the name has a great importance.
There is in reality only one true form of promiscuity--the prostitution of modern civilized races, who have introduced it among savages, subjecting them to gratify their own lust.
Among savages, jealous women bite off their rivals' noses; in civilized countries they throw sulphuric acid in the face.
It is interesting to compare these punishments with those practised among savages.
Among savages, in particular, filial regard is largely regard for one's elders or the aged, p.
Nor is there any reason to suppose that, among savages, the father possesses an absolute right of life and death over his children.
Of the second part we offer no explanation beyond the fact that the incidents in the myth are almost universally found among savages, and that, therefore, in Greece they are probably survivals from savagery.
Surely, then, where they seem decaying and anomalous, as among Aryans, these customs and laws are mouldering relics of ideas and practices natural and inevitable among savages.
As among savages, it was in the act of consent that the essence of the sacrament lay; the intervention of the priest was not, in principle, necessary to give marriage its religiously binding character.
Any supernormal acquisitions of knowledge in these induced conditions, among savages, would be on a par with similar alleged experiences of persons under hypnotism.
Howitt remarks: "It is not difficult to see how, among savages, who have no knowledge of the real causes of diseases which are the common lot of humanity, the very suspicion even of such a thing as death from disease should be unknown.
Among savages it is more or less unconscious and instinctive; among civilised men it is deliberately cultivated and rewarded at least by the applause of their fellows, by the dignity, if not by the more solid recompenses, of learning.
Among savages this is doubtless a proof of the weakness of the sexual impulse.
This point attracted the attention of Kulischer many years ago, and he showed how the dances of the men, among savages, excite the women, who watch them intently though unobtrusively, and are thus influenced in choosing their lovers.
Among savages, one expects things to be as among savages.
Among savages, also, the young children are bright, but development stops at a very early age.
Among savages nudity is of course one of the predisposing causes, and the same cause acts among sailors and prostitutes.
Vanity is almost as powerful a cause among criminals as among savages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "among savages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
