Defence of Criminals 



settler is then the criminal. His crops are fired 

 and his cattle driven off. What right has he 

 to lay a limit to the hunting grounds, or to spoil 

 the wild free life of the plains with his dirty agri- 

 culture ? 



As to the marriage relation and its attendant 

 moralities, the forms are numerous and notorious 

 enough. Public opinion seems to have varied 

 through all phases and ideals, and yet there is no 

 indication of finality. Modern investigations 

 show that in primitive human societies the affinities 

 admitted or barred in marriage are most various 

 the relation of brother and sister being even 

 in cases allowed ; in the present day such a bond 

 as the last-mentioned would be considered inhuman 

 and monstrous. 1 Polyandry prevails among one 

 people or at one time, polygyny prevails among 

 another people or at another time. In Central 

 Africa to-day the chief offers you his wife as a 

 mark of hospitality, in India the native Prince 

 keeps her hidden even from his most intimate 

 guest. Among the Japanese, public opinion holds 

 young women even of good birth singularly 

 free in their intercourse with men, //// they are 

 mart led ; at Paris they are free after. In the 

 Greek and Roman antiquity marriage seems, with 



1 Yet there is no doubt that lasting and passionate love may 

 exist between two persons thus nearly related. The danger to 

 the health of the offspring from occasional in-breeding of the 

 kind appears to arise chiefly from the accentuation of infirmities 

 common to the two parents. In a state of society free from the 

 diseases of the civilisation-period, such a danger would be greatly 

 reduced. 



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