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" Je n'en vois pas la necessity. Secondly, savage tribes 'allow unrestricted licence of intercourse between the sexes under puberty', and thus familiarize him (the savage) 'with sexual unions that are necessarily sterile; from which he may not unnaturally... "
The Secret of the Totem, by Andrew Lang - Page 187
by Andrew Lang - 1905 - 215 pages
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Folklore, Volume 17

Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1906 - 620 pages
...is impossible, he is mistaken. It is actually believed and directly said by certain native tribes, that the intercourse of the sexes has nothing to do with the birth of children. They are in the same mental condition as our fairy tales, where the stork on the chimney-pot...
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Man, God and Immortality: Thoughts on Human Progress

James George Frazer - Philosophy - 1927 - 468 pages
...of allowing unrestricted licence of intercourse between the sexes under puberty has familiarized him with sexual unions that are necessarily sterile ;...sexes has nothing to do with the birth of offspring. Hence he is driven to account for pregnancy and childbirth in some other way. The theory which the...
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Early Sociology of Religion, Volume 1

Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 372 pages
...of allowing unrestricted licence of intercourse between the sexes under puberty had familiarised him with sexual unions that are necessarily sterile; from...intercourse of the sexes has nothing to do with the birth of offspring.39 Hence he is driven to account for pregnancy and child-birth in some other way. The theory...
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Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality

Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet Lyons - Psychology - 2004 - 437 pages
...of allowing unrestricted license of intercourse between the sexes under puberty has familiarised him with sexual unions that are necessarily sterile; from...sexes has nothing to do with the birth of offspring. Hence he is driven to account for pregnancy and childbirth in some other way. . . . Nothing is commoner...
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Publications, Volume 58

Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1906 - 1010 pages
...is impossible, he is mistaken. It is actually believed and directly said by certain native tribes, that the intercourse of the sexes has nothing to do with the birth of children. They are in the same mental condition as our fairy tales, where the stork on the chimney-pot...
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