[150.2] J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, iv. 450 sq.
[151.1] J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, iv. 457-460.
[151.2] The Greek orator Antiphon observes that the presence of a homicide pollutes the whole city and brings the curse of barrenness on the land (Antiphon, ed. F. Blass, Leipsic, 1871, pp. 13, 15, 30). See further L. R. Farnell, The Evolution of Religion (London, 1905), pp. 139 sqq.
Chapter VI Notes
[156.1] Lucian, Hermotimus, 64, κατὰ τοὺς Ἀρεοπαγίτας αὐτὸ ποιοῦντα, οἳ ἐν νυκτὶ καὶ σκότῳ δικάζουσιν, ὡς μὴ ἐς τοὺς λέγοντας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐς τὰ λεγόμενα ἀποβλέποιεν: id., De domo, 18, εἰ μὴ τύχοι τις παντελῶς τυφλὸς ὢν ἢ ἐν νυκτὶ ὥσπερ ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ποιοῖτο τὴν ἀκρόασιν.
The Scope of Social Anthropology Notes
[166.1] This happened at Ballyvadlea, in the county of Tipperary, in March 1895. For details of the evidence given at the trial of the murderers, see “The ‘Witch-burning’ at Clonmel,” Folk-lore, vi. (1895) pp. 373-384.
[166.2] This happened at Norwich in June 1902. See The People’s Weekly Journal for Norfolk, July 19, 1902, p. 8.
[167.1] I say “an enlightened minority,” because in any large community there are always many minorities, and some of them are very far from enlightened. It is possible to be below as well as above the average level of our fellows.
[170.1] E. Renan et M. Berthelot, Correspondance (Paris, 1898), pp. 75 sq.