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ghosts which did “ squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.” 
Polynesian ethics also taught that the seat of the moral powers 
was in the small intestines. The word loko, which means 
within, was applied to the moral state or disposition. This 
idea was so prominent that large stomachs were cultivated as 
indicative of great moral strength. The word papio was 
applied to the act of lying face downward with nothing for 
the belly to rest on for the purpose of enlarging it and thus 
augmenting the moral powers. 
This peculiar thought, after all, is not very far removed 
from that contained in the Italian expressions, amico 
sviscerato, bosom friend, and un amove sviscerato, an intense 
passionate love—literally a disemboweled love. No doubt 
the idea came through sources where a belief was held sim¬ 
ilar to that prevalent in Hawaii. Compare also Mi ha 
levato un peso dallo stomaco, He took a weight off my stomach; 
likewise the sentence, Quest a nuova vi ferira nella parte piu 
cava delle vostre viscere. Besides, there has always been more 
or less connection, either expressed or implied, between the 
mind and stomach. It was in the Latin language that the 
original Greek word <rcp/ia changed its meaning from mouth 
to belly. After this the step was easy from the organs of 
digestion to those of sentiment, and we find many examples 
in the Romance languages of this enlarged meaning of the 
original word. So the idea finds expression not alone in 
the South seas, but may be found cropping out all along the 
road of linguistic development, whether it be in Greece or 
Polynesia. 
