D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 AND 551 BROADWAY.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

JOHN S. HITTELL,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1. Grandeur of the Subject; Sec. 2. Its Newness; Sec.

3. Its Inexhaustibility; Sec. 4. Draper; Sec. 5. Plan of the

Book;
Sec. 6. Explanations.

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SAVAGISM

CHAPTER I.

SECTION 7. Man progressive; Sec. 8. Civilization natural; Sec. 9.

Mosaic Account; Sec. 10. Man's Antiquity; Sec. 11. His

Tropical Origin; Sec. 12. Primeval Savagism; Sec. 13. The

Lowest Tribes; Sec. 14. Bushmen; Sec. 15. Californians;

Sec. 16. Subjection to Nature; Sec. 17. No Accumulation;

Sec. 18. No Division of Labor; Sec. 19. Polity; Sec. 20.

War;
Sec. 21. Religion; Sec. 22. Women; Sec. 23. Arts;

Sec. 24. Ornament; Sec. 25. Stimulants; Sec. 26. Esqui-

maux; Sec. 27. Hawaiians; Sec. 28. Feejeeans; Sec. 29. So-

ciety-Islanders; Sec. 30. Maoris; Sec. 31. Kaffres; Sec. 32.

North-American Indians; Sec. 33. Primitive Language; Sec.

34. Agglutinative Speech; Sec. 35. Aryan Tongues; Sec. 36.

Semitic Speech.

SECTION 37. Definition; Sec. 38. Bronze Age; Sec. 39. Barbaric

Arts; Sec. 40. Homes; Sec. 41. Polity; Sec. 42. Caste; Sec.

43. Religion; Sec. 44. Worship; Sec. 45. Morality; Sec. 46.

Public Monuments; Sec. 47. Knotted Cords; Sec. 48. Hiero-

glyphics; Sec. 49. Quichuans; Sec. 50. Aztecs; Sec. 51.

Egypt; Sec. 52. Egyptian Priests; Sec. 53. Devout Belief;

Sec. 54. Egyptian Morality; Sec. 55. Egyptian Castes; Sec.

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