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the Nicobar Islands some natives who had just begun to 

 make pottery died. The art was given up and never 

 again attempted. 15 A Yakut woman contracted an 

 endogamous tage. She soon afterwards became 



Mind. Tiii- \\.-i- thought to be on account of the violation 

 of a ii-toms. 8 * 



From the illustrations we have just cited it is clear 

 as association increases the social < \i" ri< nee of the 

 primitive group and complex relation.- dev.-lop, a social 

 press -rins to operate and exercises restraint 



us of its members. The human consciousness 

 of kind iii'-lnd -, antipathies, prejudices, 



and cordialities, d-v.-lnp> the notion of type and makes 

 the group sensitive to any lark of ronformity to that type. 

 Members who do not follow the established usages of 

 the group come to be regard- -loyal to its tradi- 



tions. They are restrained, persecuted, or outlawed.* 

 Anl so it happens that, while the first essential to the 

 development of that group solidarity which spells vir 

 tory and survival, is a bond of custom or usage, this very 

 unity may he preserved at the expense of exterminating 

 ;1 and helpful variation. The group pressure upon 

 members becomes unreasonable and oppre> 

 at is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a 

 fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cement inir 

 (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of cus- 

 tom, but of leaking the cake of custom; not of making 

 the tir-t preservative lial>it. Imt of breaking through it, 

 and ing something better." 81 



8e Appendix I Social Selection, p 2*7. 

 RaUel. F. 4*fAropo0ro?ropJU<. rol. II. p SW. 



8lero*netki. V. LtraJtMfy. p. 558. lUjcehol, op. at., p. ftl 



