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The remote ancestorsof the English people thought and felt differently, as do still theAustralians, whose "first great principle with regard to punishment isthat all the relatives of a culprit, in the event of his not beingfound, are implicated in his guilt: the brothers of the criminalconceive themselves to be quite as guilty as he is. " Then, too, amongcivilized peoples the individualities of women are so far recognizedthat the life and liberty of a wife are not supposed to be bound up withth...ose of her husband; and she now, having obtained a right to exclusivepossession of property, contends for complete independence, domestic andpolitical. It is, or was, otherwise in Fiji. The wives of the Fijianchiefs consider it a sacred duty to suffer strangulation on the deathsof their husbands. A woman who had been rescued by an Englishman"escaped during the night, and, swimming across the river, andpresenting herself to her own people, insisted upon the completion ofthe sacrifice which she had in a moment of weakness reluctantlyconsented to forego.
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