The origin and development of the moral ideas

Chiefs, tied by custom, i. 161sq.; justice administered by, i. 173–176, 180–184, 490 sq.; protecting foreigners and persons who have no relations, i. 180; killing of, i. 43; human sacrifices offered for the purpose of saving the lives of, i. 454–456, 466; sacrificed, i. 466; the practice of compensation encouraged by, i. 490 sq.; disrespect for, punished by gods, i. 626; proprietary rights of, ii. 33; suicide committed on the graves of, ii. 234; labour suspended on the death of, ii. 284; abstinence from fish after the death of, ii. 301; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 527; cannibalism practised by, ii. 558, 574; their tombs asylums, ii. 630; their houses asylums, ii. 636; their persons asylums, ii. 636 sq. See King.

Children, the subjection of, ch. xxv. (i. 597–628); cursed or blessed by their parents, i. 58, 538, 621–627, ii. 703, 715. 716 n. 2, 732; punished if convicted of a design to kill their father or mother, i. 245; parents killing their infant, i. 378 394–413, 633, ii. 562, 752 sq.; killing their parents, i. 383–386, 522, ii. 256 sq. n. 2; killing or abandoning their aged parents, i. 386–390, 606, 607, 612, 620; eating their parents, i. 390, ii. 554, 568 sq.; parents killing their grown-up, i. 393 sq., ii. 256 sq. n. 2; a father’s affection for his, i. 401, 402, 405, 529–533, ii. 187–190, 193, 397, 748; a mother’s affection for her, i. 405, 529–531, ii. 186–190, 193, 748; eaten by their parents or others, i. 401, 458 sq., ii. 554, 555, 562, 568 sq.; parents exposing their new-born, i. 406–412, 689; sacrificed to save the lives of their parents, i. 455, 456, 459–461; sacrificed by their parents, i. 455–461; committing suicide on the death of their parents, i. 473; parents inflicting corporal punishment upon their, i. 513–515, 607, 610; using violence against their parents, i. 513 624 sq., ii. 677; parents’ duty of taking care of their, i. 526–533; their duty of taking care of their

parents, i. 533–538; their respect for their parents, i. 534–538, 600, 601, 607–613, 616–628, ii. 194; their affection for their parents i. 534–538, 618, ii. 194, 748; for their mothers, i. 618, 659; their duties to their parents emphasised by religion, i. 536, 537, 608, 610, 612, 613, 616, 617, 620–627, ii. 711, 714, 715, 716 n. 2, 717 732; cursing their parents, i. 564; sold as slaves by their parents, i. 599, 607, 609, 611, 612, 615, 675, 681, 682, 684, 685, 689, 691 sq.; proprietary incapacities of, ii. 27, 28, 57; rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 44–49, 53–57; telling a falsehood in the presence of their parents, ii. 96; addressing abusive language to their parents, ii. 142; their duties to their parents, ii. 166, 748; parents’ duties to their, ii. 166, 748; parents committing suicide on the death of their, ii. 232, 244 n. 3; parents fasting after the death of their, ii. 298–300; fasting after the death of their parents, ii. 298–301; punished after death for inflicting injuries upon their parents, ii. 715; adopted, see Adopted children; illegitimate, see Illegitimate children

Children, young, the anger of, i. 22sq.; sympathetic resentment in, i. 112; their ideas of right and wrong, i. 115; their respect for the customary, i. 159; injuries committed by, i. 217, 218, 264–269, 316; treatment of, in war i. 335, 336, 342, 343, 369 sq.; sacrificed, i. 454–461; their desire to appropriate and to keep that which has been appropriated, ii. 51; truthfulness and mendacity of, ii. 88 n. 5, 111 n. 3, 116, 117, 124–126, 129; disposed to believe what they are told, ii. 109; their dislike of that which is strange or unfamiliar, ii. 227; the altruistic sentiment in, i. 228; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 526, 527, 549; their fear of strange phenomena, ii. 583; the future state of, ii. 673, 727; the future state of unbaptised, ii. 721– 723

Compensation, the relation between punishment and, i. 168sq.; for involuntary destruction of property, i. 222–225, 38 sq.; for bodily injuries, i. 511–513, 517–520, 524 n. 3, ii. 263; for the seduction of an unmarried woman, ii. 425, 426, 436 sq.; for rape, ii. 438; for adultery, ii. 447 sq.

—— for homicide, i. 183, 484–491; if committed accidentally, i. 217, 219–221, 224, 226; if committed by a child, i. 268; by an idiot, i. 272; if the victim is a woman, i. 420 sq.; if the victim is a slave, i. 423; influenced by the rank of the victim, i. 430 sq.