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rather worse than a cow treats her calf, and leaves it to shift 

 for itself at an age when the children of civilised parents 

 can scarcely be trusted to pass a quarter of an hour alone ' 

 (Wood). 



All other kinds of affection are naturally at an equally low 

 ebb conjugal and fraternal, for instance. The Angola negro 

 has no words or expressions 'indicative of affection or love;' nor 

 does he show such emotions themselves (Moiiteiro). Among 

 the African Latookas ' there is no such thing as love. . . . 

 The feeling is not understood. . . . Women are so far ap- 

 preciated as they are valuable animals. ... A savage holds 

 to his cows and his women, but especially to his cows. In a 

 razzia fight he will seldom stand for the sake of his wives, 

 but when he does fight it is to save his cattle' (Baker). 

 Girls among the North American Indians ' will tear out of 

 the hands ' of elder women, including their own mothers, 

 ' the food which they are about to eat, on the plea that old 

 women are of no use, and that the food will be much better 

 employed in nourishing the young and the strong. ... If 

 the tribe be on the move, and those who are old and infirm 

 are felt to be hindrances, they settle the matter by leaving 

 them behind' (Wood). 



Anything like sexual decency or modesty is scarcely to be 

 looked for. The sexual passion of the Angola negro is 

 ' purely of an animal description ' (Monteiro) ; and it cannot 

 be said to be more than this in countless thousands of men 

 and women even in civilised societies. The ape men of the 

 province of Wellesley in the Malay Peninsula are ' even more 

 degraded and lost to a sense of decency than the lowest 

 orders of the animal creation' (Bradley). In certain savage 

 races coition frequently takes place in public (Houzeau). The 

 Australian black women are ' destitute of all sense of shame, 

 and never think of covering their pudenda.' If not prevented 

 by the police in Australian towns, these natives ' would daily 

 violate public decency, after the manner of monkeys in a 

 menagerie.' The Brazilian Botokudo, too, ' is without the 

 slightest sentiment of modesty,' and in other savage tribes 

 ' no idea of shame has ever caused them to think of veiling 

 their sexual parts' (Biichner). Defcecation is another prac- 



