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punishable crimes and wrong acts only to he visited by public 
reprobation ? 7. What acts of oppression or cruelty may be done 
by the father in his family or the chief in his tribe, without its 
being any one’s place to condemn him ? 8. What acts are con¬ 
sidered wrong when done against a tribesman, but right when 
done against an alien (e. g. theft, deceit, &c.) ? 9. Is any moral 
code ascribed to an ancient lawgiver, hero, or deity ? 10. Is re¬ 
ligious influence brought to bear on moral conduct? are gods or 
spirits considered to punish certain acts by afflicting the doer 
or his family ? 11. Is any moral or immoral conduct considered 
to affect the state of a man’s soul after death P 
12. Is it wrong to do harm to the person or property of a non¬ 
tribesman or member of a hostile tribe ? are there exceptional 
cases ? 13. Is wanton ill-treatment of wives, children, and slaves 
wrong ? and who may protest ? 14. Is hospitality inculcated to¬ 
ward tribesmen or all men ? is it wicked to refuse it and mean to 
stint it ? 15. Is giving away or sharing of food and other property 
a duty or a virtuous act ? what is the notion of liberality and 
generosity ? 16. Is covetousness condemned? and is the accu¬ 
mulation of property regarded as an avaricious act ? 17. Is it 
wrong to steal from one’s friends and tribesmen ? 18. Is it wrong 
to rob strangers ? 19. Is cheating approved or condemned ? and 
what difference does it make whether the person cheated is a 
friend or stranger ? 20. Is lying wrong in itself, or under parti¬ 
cular circumstances? 21. Is the breaking of solemn engagements 
or oaths condemned ? and what is the usual judgment as to trea¬ 
chery ? 22. Is abstemiousness in eating, and temperance in, or 
abstinence from, use of intoxicating drink approved? 23. Are 
gluttony, laziness, dirtiness, gossipping, tale-bearing, &c. con¬ 
demned ? 24. Is reverence to the aged a duty or virtue ? and is 
its neglect condemned ? 
25. Is general courtesy and kindness inculcated and rudeness 
condemned ? 26. What are the rules of right and wrong as to 
unchastity in either sex before marriage ? 27. After marriage, 
are acts of unchastity offences which public opinion takes ac¬ 
count of as wrong? 28. Is adultery a personal injury, or an 
offence against morals, or both ? 29. How does public opinion 
judge of unnatural crimes ? 30. Is selfishness considered a vice ? 
31. How is cowardice judged of? 32. Are bravery, ferocity, 
tenacity of revenge, endurance of pain and hardship, and other 
warlike qualities looked on as the chief virtues ? 33. How are 
such warlike virtues accounted of in comparison with the milder 
virtues of kindness, generosity, &c. ? 
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