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It is not so much owing to the estimation of woman as regarc 

 for the rights of the husband, that in Java it is considered 

 great insult to place the hand on the head of the wife j 1 and th 

 inviolability of women in the whole of the East may also b 

 ascribed to the gravity and self-esteem of the males. A 

 Turkish Bey of Assuan, who was insulted by a Fellah womai 

 on account of some sentence he passed on her husband, left the 

 divan in a rage, exclaiming at the same time, ' ' If thou wert a 

 man, by the beard of my father thou shouldst be flogged to 

 death." 2 



We believe we may be justified in concluding that the moral 

 endowment of the white race differs in nothing from that of 

 other races, for it is clearly shown that the rude primitive 

 nature breaks out in the civilized man whenever wholesome 

 restraints are removed. Crude habits and manners among 

 savages must not be considered as specific peculiarities of 

 race, though we might strongly be so inclined on witnessing 

 a scene like that described by Parkman, 3 of North American 

 Indians, like wild beasts, devouring a buffalo they had just 

 killed, their faces and hands all besmeared with blood. It even 

 produces upon the European a disagreeable impression to see 

 Turks eat, digging about in the dish with their fingers, and to 

 hear their constant eructations. 4 The American habit mentioned 

 above is also found among the Danakils in Africa, who are 

 usually included in the Caucasian race. 5 In order not to lay too 

 much weight on such external habits, we should remember that 

 a long series of parallels may be drawn between the customs 

 of so-called savages and many cultivated nations of antiquity, 

 such as tattooing, scalping, preserving the heads of enemies 

 as trophies, etc. Not to become tedious, we refer to the 

 collation of such analogies to the authorities below. 6 With re- 



1 Pfyffer, " Skizzen v. d. Insel Java," p. 25, 1829. 



2 Brehm, loc. cit., ii, p. 62. 



3 " The California and Oregon Trail," New York, 1849. 



4 Werne, loc. cit., p. 107. 



5 Johnston, i, p. 160. 



6 Lafitau, "Mceurs des Sauvages Americains," ii, p. 257, 1724; Carli, 

 " Briefe uber America," deutsch, von Hennig. 1785 ; Martius, von d. 

 Rechtsztde (1832), " Die Neuseelander nach d. Engl.," Leipz., 1833. 



