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recognized among them:- Retaliation, Communism,
Hereditary names and privileges, and a rule of
Marriage founded on hereditary clarification.
I. Retaliation is an instinct common to man and
brute. But among the Aborigines of Australia, as well
as among some other Savage races, Retaliation is
both aggravated and methodized. There is nothing
which seems more clearly to indicate the dominion
of a destroying intellect, an Apollyon, over the
heathen than this Law of retaliation. In some points
this Law of the aborigines corresponds with the Code of
Honour, so called, which certain classes in the
civilized nations have long maintained. For instance
when one blackfellow carries off the wife of another,
the injured husband and the betrayer meet in mortal
conflict, or justifies the crime of the other in the eyes
of the community. Another injury which is avenged
with relentless fury is the invasion of the sacred
seclusion which surrounds the dead. Some tribes bury