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SOCIOLOGY—
thereupon God relented (1 Sam. vi, in the body? That he could get
BY WILLIAM WINTER.
4).
I cannot believe th at God rain by praying for it; th at he Tribal Society— Exogamous Metronymic
P H E R E ’S ch an g e in tim es, in fash- killed fifty thousand men for.look- could cause fire to hum up a sacri-
Tribes.
*
ions, m an u e rs, speech;
mg
into
a
box
(1
Sam.
vi,
19).
It
fice
and
a
lta
r,
together
with
twelve
There s change in p a rtie s, g o v e rn ­
m en ts, an d c r e e d s ;
seems incredible, after all the Jew s barrels of w ater? (1 K ings xviii.) BY F. H. GIDDINGS, PROFESSOR OF SOCI­
T here’s th e exchange, whose p o iso n o u s
OLOGY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
had done, after all their wars and Fan we believe th a t an angel of the
fingers reach
The h e a rt of com m erce, a n d it victories, even when Saul was king,
Lord turned cook and prepared two
(F ro m “ E le m e n ts of S o cio lo g y .” )
stra ig h tw a y bleeds;
that
there
was
not
am
ong
them
one
1 h e re ’s ch an g e in w hat we le a rn , an d
suppers in one night for E lijah, anc
il E next step in the evolution
w hat we tea ch ;
»rnith who could m ake a sword or a that the prophet eat enough to last
T h e re ’s ch an g e in w hat one w rites,
of the forms of social o rg an i­
spear, and th a t they were com ­ him forty days and forty nights?
an d w hat he rea d s;
zation became possible when
T h e re ’s c h an g e in e v e ry th in g , o r—n o t pelled to go to the P hilistines to
(1
Kings
x
ix
.)
Is
it
true
th
at
to m ock i t —
m ultiplying hordes drew together
In e v e ry th in g e x c e p t a poor m a n ’s sharpen every plow share, coulter, when a captain with fifty men went
p ocket.
and m attock (1 Sam . xiii, 19, 20). after E lijah, this prophet caused in clusters, and established friendly
relations with one another. T he
Can you believe that God said to fire to come down from heaven and
I lik e ex p erien ce, th o u g h , how e’e r it
clan and exogamy then appeared.
te lls,
Saul:
“
Now
go
and
sm
ite
Amalek
consume
them
all?
Should
God
F o r or a g a in st me; all is one a t la st.
O rigin of E xogamy .— A ten d en ­
T hese h e a rts of o u rs a re m uch lik e and utterly destroy all th a t they allow such wretches to m anage his
so u n d le ss wells,
have, and spare them not; but slav fire? Is it true th a t E lijah con- cy toward exogamy doubtless ex ­
W h erein th e sh in in g P e a rls of tr u th
a re c a s t ;
both man and woman, infant and si med an o th er captain with fifty isted in prim itive m an as an in h er­
ited instinct. Most of the higher
A nd very h appy he who rig h tly sp e lls suckling” ? Can you believe that
men in the sam e way? (2 Kings i.)
I he sw eet an d b itte r lesso n s of th e
p a st,
because Saul took the king alive Is it a fact th a t a river divided be­ anim als avoid close inbreeding.
S trictly speaking the anim al in ­
F o r o nly th u s he com es h im self to after killing every other m an, wo­
cause the water was struck with a
know ,—
stinct is one against the m ating of
W hich all his know ledge is, as P ope m an and child, the ogre called J e ­ cloak ?
nest or house m ates and does not
will show. *
hovah was displeased and m ade up
Did a man actually go to heaven
prevent the m ating of near kin if
I lik e ex p erien ce, th e re fo re . I have had his mind to hurl Saul from the in a chariot of fire draw n by horse»
My sh a re of blows a n d b ru ises; b u t I
throne and give his place to a n ­ of fire, or was he carried to Para- they happen to have been reared
th in k —
L e t it be good, in d iffe re n t o r bad—
other? (1 Sam. xv.) I cannot be­ due by a w hirlw ind? Must we be­ apart. W herever p rim itive hum an
T he “ wine of life ” ’s a very d e ce n t
lieve th a t the P hilistines all ran lieve, in order to be good and ten ­ lordes m aintained such com m uni­
d rin k .
cation th at men and women passed
Vet, if a m an lives on, a n d d o n ’t go m ad, away because one of their num ber der fathers and m others, th a t be­
requently from one to another,
W hen finally he tre m b le s on th e b rin k
Of d e a th , 1 ju d g e, th o u g h c e rta in was killed with a stone. I cannot cause some “ little ch ild ren ” mocked there was probably a tendeucy to­
people th r e a t i t —
justify the conduct of A bigail, the a an old m an with a bald head,
T he c h an c es a re th a t he will n o t reg ret it.
wife of Nabal, who took presents to iod— the same God who said, wards ihe substitution of exogam-
ous for endogam ous m ating.
I re lish self-d issectio n ; fo r I woo
David.
David hardly did right 'Suffer
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little children - to come u„tu
unto
All k n o w led g e,an d th is process finds
O rigin of the C lan .— T he clan
when he said to this woman, ‘‘I
— sent two she-bears out of the
it o u t.
1 love to ju d g e betw een th e false and have hearkened to thy voice, and wood ar,ii ’are forty-tw o of these grew out of the n atu ra l defensive
tru e ;
babes'? T hink of the m others th a t alliance of a household group of
Blow off th e d u s t of ro m an c e an d of have accepted thy person.”
d o u b t;
,
could h ard ly have been chance watched and waited for their child- brothers and sisters. T his group
B reak e rr o r ’s c ru s t a n d le t th e s u n lig h t
th at made Nabal so deathly sick ren. 1 bink of the wailing when began to assum e an artificial form
th ro u g h ;
Ope m y s te ry ’s d o o rs; give b ig o try th e next m orning and killed him in ’hese m angled ones were found, whenever individuals unrelated to
k n o u t:
it in blood were adopted into it,
I love th e good, th e b e a u tifu l, th e g reat, ten days. All this looks wrong, es- wheu they were brought back and
A nd all th e n o b le st hopes in m a n ’s pecially as David m arried his widow pressed to the breasts of weeping and other individuals originally
e s ta te .
before poor N abal was fairly cold Wom®n. W hat an am iable gentle- m embers of it and related to it in
man Mr. E lish a m ust have been blood were expelled from it, on a c ­
* “ A nd all our know ledge is ourselves to know ." (1 Sam. xxv.)
— [Hope’s “ Essay on M a n .’’
count of any wrong-doing on th eir
F ifty - fourth . N otw ithstanding ( 2 K ings ii.)
all I have heard of K atie King, I
I1 ifty - sixth . It is hard to be- part or prejudice against them on
, ABOUT T H E HOLY B IB L E ,*
cannot believe th a t a witch at En- ,ieve th a t a Pr°phet, by lyi ng on a the p a rt of their brethren.
Such a group, although already
dor m aterialized the ghost of Sam- dead body» cou,d niake
sneeze
Sixty-one Reasons for Doubting.
uel and caused it to appear with a 8even tilUes (2 Kings iv .); or th a t p artly artificial, would not be u
BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
cloak on (1 Sam. xxviii.) I cannot being d iPPed 8even times in the true clan until it existed beyond
one lifetime. I t would become 9
D ivided in to S u n d a y B ible L esso n s fo r believe th at God tem pted David to Jo rd an c°u ld cure the leprosy (2
take the census, and then gave him K ings v.) Would a merciful God true clan as soon as it adm itted
s tu d y a n d reflectio n .
TENTH SUNDAY,
his choice of three punishm ents; cur8ech,,dre,1»a n d c h ild re n ’sch ild - from am ong the descendants of it-
IF T Y -T H IR D . Is hell h u n ­ F irst,seven years of fam ine; Second, ren y et unborn» with leprosy for a original m em bers eith er all oft
gry for those who deny th at flying three m onths before their fatb er’8 fauit? (2 K ings v. 27.) Is soring of daughters, but not of sone,
water gushed from a “ hollow enemies; T hird, a pestilence of three
,nake„ \r” nr ‘>?at in or all offspring of sons, hut not oi
daughters. In the early days tbai
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place” in a dry bone? Is it evi­
dence of a new heart to believe th at
and God destroyed seventy touched another corpse it came to we are now considering, adm issions
one m an turned over a house so thousand men (2 Sam. xxiv.) Why ^fe? ( 2 Kings xiii, 21.) Is it a could be m ade only from the de
large th a t over three thousand peo­ should God kill the people for what 8'? n tb a t a man wanlM to com m it a scendants of daughters.
ple were on the roof? For mv part, David did? Is it a sin to be count- V i?® because he refuses to believe
J u s t this curious extension and
Can anvthim r ...
.
i. U at a k u ,g bad a boil and th a t God
I cannot believe these things, and ed?
h
lk
Hnythlng more bruta,ly ca««ed the sun lo g o backward in lim itation of the m em bership of
if my salvation depends upon my it iish be conceived? W hy should heaven so th a t the shadow on a the brotherhood was brought abou
.redulitv, I am as good as dam ned man waste prayers upon such a God? 8Un-dial went back ten degrees as a by the developm ent of toteraisn.
already. I cannot believe th at the
F ifty - fifth .
M ust we adm it " f n , “ ’,'*,1 ‘J?* “ (" reBai? would get Ih ro u g h those prim itive habits ' i
Philistines took back the ark with th at E lijah was fed by ravens; that tru e th a t th is ^ lo b e ’ turned hack- th o u g h t th a t were explained in tl.
. * T hr /L
fr,om Insereoll are now to be they brought him bread and flesh ward, th a t its motion was reversed preceding Article, the mem bers < f
Mi? \
Seeker and in V olum e 11
PT Dresden E d itio n . I hey were w ritten in every m orning and evening? Must a8 a »>gn to a Jew ish king?
I f i t d i d a brotherhood recognized as kind
th e
b u t not published td l a fte r his death. We
themselves any pers< Jo <
will p n n t them in p a rts —each p art reads as a we believe th a t this saFne prophet nOt’ this 8tory >8 false, and tb a t red with
whole. We do this because u n til the people are
em ancipated from the C atholic C hurch, the P ro t- could create meal and oil, and in-1 n V ?;
? ’ble 18 not true even if bearing their own totem ic nan, III*
a .
at}(l the belief in “ th e su p e rn a tu r­
al, there is no hope for th is w orld.— E d . I o k c h . duce a departed sou.
come back I
ContiDQed ;
J and m ark; and there was a p ro c e -«
whereby the range of nam ing an.i
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