The real test of kinshipis language, which is here ignored.
The evident kinship of some peoples is denied on the ground of dislike; for the same reason, Moab and Ammon, who are well known, are simply omitted.
The mute and stunted human embryo that gazes appealingly from out the depths of their eyes must ever remind him of a kinship once (possibly) closer.
Thus, the dead fathers and living children are turned toward one another in the affection of a kinship that is to endure throughout eternity.
Anthropologists aver that even in the most primitive communities kinshipwas recognized as an established feature, and laws relating to the sexual relationship obtained.
There is no style of writing but should have a certain trace of kinship with the epigraphic or monumental style, which is, indeed, the ancestor of all styles.
Now, just as the sun cannot shed its light but to the eye that sees it, nor music sound but to the hearing ear, so the value of all masterly work in art and science is conditioned by the kinship and capacity of the mind to which it speaks.
The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.
I give one instance out of a hundred; I have not myself any instinctive kinship with that enthusiasm for physical virginity, which has certainly been a note of historic Christianity.
Now I wonder if comradeship and kinship really mean just caring about the people we would have had to care about anyway, our own friends or our own family?
Love is the joy of kinship so deep that self is forgotten.
If because the common name, say Emu, is taken to indicate some sort of blood-relationship, why may you not marry a blood relation, even if there be no traceable kinship between you and her?
Is this blood kinship the true social basis and Totemism only a veneer?
The membership came from everykinship group' (totem kin) 'in the tribe.
The myth of descent from or kinship with the animal or plant, the Darwinian myth, does not stand alone.
His belief in a myth of kinship with an Emu is carried into practice, and regulates his conduct, magical and social.
Next, a recognition of kinship was needed, and this was supplied, let us conjecture, by naming the children of each of the captive women after the totem name of the group from which she was captured.
The belief in the racoon kinship is the basis of that social group--the man has other social groups of other kinds.
The cement is the belief in the actual kinship of all persons having the same totem name, and sacred totem blood, even if they belong to remote and hostile tribes.
In any case the 'classes' 'have the effect of preventing consanguineous marriages, by furnishing an easy test of relationship when the tribe has become so numerous or widespread that kinship could not otherwise be well determined.
Now he realized that it was nothing more than she would show anyone thrown upon her generosity, or at the most, presenting a claim to kinshipof blood.
It will be remembered that Michelangelo Buonarroti claimed kinship with the Count of Canossa; and a letter from the Count is extant acknowledging the validity of his pretension.
It was at this time that, acting for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first claimed open kinship with the Medici of Florence.
All these worthy people brought gifts of more or less value, according to the nearness of theirkinship and the length of their purses.
An unworldly choice he made of a wife, for he took that woman who had saved him from the waves; she was the daughter of a small farmer and brought neither dowry nor kinship of any power.
And the law is clearly shown by the case of the Heath-Slayings and other famous quarrels, when from small broils great feuds arose, from the duty of kinship and the unwillingness to pay blood-fines for another's deed.
It is sayings of this sort that bring to mind his kinship with Whitman, to whom he is also bound by the freemasonry of the roads.
It was with these last that he had had kinship and communion: these endured always; but for the men they slew, what were they more in the great sum of time than forest-leaves or ocean driftwood?
With the bastard Folle-Farine and with the regicide Marcellin the people had no association, and for them no pity; therefore they had found each other by the kinship of proscription; and in a way there was love between them.
MADAM,--The prisoner with whom you claim kinship was sentenced to be shot as a spy this morning.
Seeing her silent, he resumed: "It was this sad kinship pushed me to a parley wherein, perhaps, I have something strained my strict duty.
Yesterday she had shuddered at the thought of any link of kinship between them, as she might have shuddered at kinship with a wronger of women, a killer of children, a coward.
For, even in this late day, some of us are born with remembrance, with dumb worship, with intimate and uplifting kinship to that Mother.
The world would say we are strangers; but my heart and soul and every fibre of my being appear to recognize a kinship so close that I feel we never can be strangers again.
Her heart must have recognized the true kinship in this other man--blast him!
D), suggest a close kinship to the more developed cases of Mr. Moses and Mrs. Piper.
I reply that the very fact of his kinship with the ape is proof presumptive of his kinship with the angel.
Somewhat similarly, Love is a kind of exalted but unspecialised telepathy;--the simplest and most universal expression of that mutual gravitation or kinship of spirits which is the foundation of the telepathic law.
He upheld Asmund's view on account of their kinship together.
She was very glad and said he had now shown his kinship to the Vatnsdal race.
Especially Harald the son of Sigurd did him honour, and claimedkinship with him; it was supposed to have been by his advice that Thorsteinn had acted.
His lover's imagination had made her holy, too holy, too spiritualized, to have any kinship with him in the flesh.
He could find nokinship with these stolid-faced, ox-minded bestial creatures.
But the idea ofkinship at last suggested something more sensible than jokes to Dennis O'Moore.
Here is the real benefit of scholarship; it reduces men tokinship with their race.
All these are peoples to whom we have been bound by ties of kinship or trusteeship.
The alleged close kinshipof England and Germany is based on bad history and doubtful theory.
For all our differences with the Germans, any cool and impartial mind must admit that we have many points of kinship with them.
