The Evolution of Morality

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The Evolution of Morality
Charles Staniland Wake
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242 8eq,y Wood, op. cit, voL i p. 222 9eg.
« Wood, op. cit., i. p. 6. • Zulu-Land, p. 176.
4 Thompson, who ascribes to the Bechuanas a yeiy despicable character, says, however, that they neither rob nor ill-use travellen.
op. cit. vol. i., p. 338.
* Wood, op. ciL, vol. L p. 816 ; Burchell, op, ciL, vol. IL p. 563.
• Kay, op. cit, p. 169.
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...e is punished with death.^ The chief virtue of the ELafir — but not of the Bechuana, who is selfish and pleads poverty * — would seem to be hospitality,* although he will seldom meet with it out of his own tribe.* Other- wise, he is extremely avaricious, the great aim of his life being to save for the purpose of buying cows.* These are valuable, not merely for their own sake, but because they form the medium of exchange for the acquisition of women, who appear nevertheless to be much less thought of by all the South African peoples than cattle.* A Kafir may have as many wives as he likes, and he takes as many as he can manage to keep.

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