Folkways / A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

by William Graham Sumner

[1576] Ibid., 215.

[1577] Exod. iii. 5; Josh. v. 15.

[1578] Relig. of the Semites, 453.

[1579] Sura XXIV.

[1580] Tornauw, Mosl. Recht., 86.

[1581] Burckhardt, Arabic Proverbs, 1.

[1582] Sittenbilder aus dem Morgenlande, 16.

[1583] The Churchman, September 2, 1905, 343.

[1584] Goodrich-Frear, Inner Jerusalem, 57.

[1585] This explanation is no doubt a product of later rationalization. The rule is a very ancient Semitic one, due to the old connection between sacrifice and commensality. W. Rob. Smith, Relig. of the Semites, 283.