Formed by the father, the mother and the children, the family was in primitive man a general institution, based on monogamy, polygamy or polyandry.
In primitive man, these families play the fundamental role and constitute the nucleus of society.
As regards marriage in primitive man, we can only compare ourselves with the living animals most closely allied to us, viz.
According to Westermark this was probably the same in primitive man.
We may certainly admit that this was also the case in primitive man, especially when there existed a rutting period, for then the sexual appetite was more violent.
Still more dangerous is it in the opinion of primitive man to move a sleeper or alter his appearance, for if this were done the soul on its return might not be able to find or recognise its body, and so the person would die.
Every spring was toprimitive man a time of terrible anxiety.
We can understand--at least after a course of anthropology--this desire of primitive man to acquire for himself the superhuman forces of the bull; but how does he make the transition from the real animal to the imaginary human god?
The tribe to primitive man is not a mere group of human beings.
First let us remember the innate tendency of primitive man everywhere, and not especially in Greece, to imagine a personal cause, like himself in all points not otherwise specified, for every striking phenomenon.
The objects and phenomena obvious to perception are therefore supposed by primitive man, as well as by animals, to be conscious subjects in virtue of their constitution, and of the innate character of sensation and intelligence.
Again, primitive man fancies he can make the sun to shine, and can hasten or stay its going down.
To readers long familiarised with the conception of natural law, the belief of primitive man that he can rule the elements must be so foreign that it may be well to illustrate it by examples.
Frazer in his Golden Bough, the author has shown the social importance of the ideas about human relations and in particular about sexual relations as held by primitive man.
Westermarck has recently come to the conclusion that the religion of primitive man has no true relation to morality, that it is not apt to give a sanction to good action, or to develop the germs of a conscience.
Turning to inanimate objects, which are supposed by primitive man to be dangerous or taboo, we are met by a fact which will astonish anthropologists, and which I cannot satisfactorily explain.
In the case of primitive man it resembles a bubble, and gives the impression of being empty.
Man has part in these three worlds; a microcosm, he realizes in his actual being what is foreshadowed by the ideal, primitive man.
The Azila emanation represents the active qualities of primitive man.
All manner of horses, from ton Shires to dwarf Shetlands, have been bred up and down from those first wild ponies domesticated by primitive man.
The moral sense of primitive man, as he sees it, might seem to justify falsehood to an enemy, rather than, as Rothe and Smyth would claim, to those who are wards of love.
The lie would seem to be a product of civilization, or an outgrowth of the spirit of trade and barter, rather than a natural impulse of primitive man.
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