Folklore as an Historical Science

by George Laurence Gomme

[322] Herodotos, iv. 180.

[323] Journ. Asiatic Soc., Bengal, xiii. 625.

[324] Major Gurdon, The Khasis, 76, 82.

[325] N. W. Thomas, Kinship Organisations in Australia, 124.

[326] Fustel de Coulange's Cité Antique, cap. xiv. and xv., is, however, the most exaggerated example of this point of view.

[327] Lang, Social Origins, 1. The latest exponent of anthropological principles affirms that "the family which exists in the lower stages of culture, though it is overshadowed by the other social phenomena, has persisted through all the manifold revolutions of society."—N. W. Thomas, Kinship Organisations in Australia, 1.

[328] Jevons' Introd. to Hist. of Religion, 195.

[329] See also Prof. Geikie in Scottish Geographical Mag. (Sept. 1897).

[330] Early Hist. of Mankind, 303; MacCulloch, Childhood of Fiction, 396; Gould, Mythical Monsters.

[331] Mr. Westermarck has collected excellent evidence as to the economic influences upon savage society (Hist. of Human Marriage, 39-49), and we may quite properly assume the same conditions for earliest man.