[16] “La Circoncision, Sa Signification Social et Religieuse.” Par M. Paul Lafargue, in the Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. Tome x, 3d fascicule, Juin à Octobre, 1887.
[17] “Circumcision.” By A. B. Arnold. New York Med. Record, Feb. 13, 1886.
[18] Bancroft’s “Native Races,” vol. ii, page 278.
[19] “Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, ou Memoires Interessants pour servir à l’Histoire de l’Espece Humaine.” Par M. de P. Edition par Dom Pernety. Tome ii. Article, Circoncision, Berlin, 1774.
[20] “The Family, a Historical and Social Study.” By Charles Franklin Thwing. Boston, 1887.
[21] The “Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains” and Virey, in the 24th volume of the “Dictionaire des Sciences Médicales,” are very full on this subject, and for fuller information the reader is referred to those works.
[22] “Cause Morale de la Circoncision des Israelites, Institution Preventive de l’Onanisme des Enfants.” Par le Docteur Vanier, du Havre. Paris, 1847.
[23] “Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.” By J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881, 1882.
[24] “Among Cannibals, or Four Years’ Travels in Australia.” By Carl Lumholtz. Page 46. Charles Scribner & Son, 1889.
[25] These interesting historical facts in relation to the holy prepuce were published in the Journal l’Excommunier in January of 1870, when the writer was in France. They were contributed by A. S. Morin, of Miron, a learned historiographer and antiquary. Europe has not recovered from its love of the supernatural that it had so strongly in the middle ages. The blood of St. Gennaro still liquefies once a year, and many churches still claim to possess the identical winding sheet that served our Lord prior to his resurrection, as well as more than one church has the holy cloth that St. Veronica used on the way to Calvary, which has an impression of the face of the Saviour.