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there a special prohibition to women and children ? 25. Does 
the touch of any person defile or sanctify an object, so that its 
owner may not touch it? 26. Is a place or object made taboo 
with the idea of keeping it safe ? and is it considered that 
magical evil will befall the unlicensed toucher ? or is the place 
or object made sacred to the gods, who will punish violation ? 
27. In general whose authority is appealed to as to such 
prohibitions? and is their infraction punished by divine or 
magical vengeance, by law, or by public disapproval ? 
No. XXXVIII.—PROPERTY. 
To what extent private property is recognized; personal and 
landed property. Tenures of land, customs concerning, &c. 
Individual, family, and common property. Heirship, succes¬ 
sion to. 
No. XXXIX.—TRADE. 
By HYDE CLARKE, Esq. 
Trade is one of those developments of culture which, when 
carried to its height, promotes the greatest prosperity of nations, 
and which is rarely found wanting, in some form, even among 
the rudest tribes ; but the mode in which it is to be recognized 
and the degree to which its progress is arrested have seldom 
received attention; and it will repay observation to trace, in 
an obscure form, the real institutions from which, in earliest 
times, the commerce of the world had its beginning. 
Produce .—The exchange of commodities is one step towards 
augmenting the individual enjoyment of each individual, by 
enabling him to profit from the labour of many, instead of 
being solely dependent on his own exertions. 1. What articles 
of home production are there ? 2. Of what raw materials are 
they made ? 3. What articles of foreign manufacture are 
