ver attained to perfection
except under the influence of Christianity.]

[Footnote 55: See the evidence collected by Jeffries Wyman, in
_Seventh Report of Peabody Museum_, pp. 27-37; cf. Wake,
_Evolution of Morality_, vol. i. p. 243. Many illustrations are
given by Mr. Parkman. In this connection it may be observed
that the name "Mohawk" means "Cannibal." It is an Algonquin
word, applied to this Iroquois tribe by their enemies in the
Connecticut valley and about the lower Hudson. The name by
which the Mohawks called themselves was "Caniengas," or
"People-at-the-Flint." See Hale, _The Iroquois Book of Rites_,
p. 173.]

[Footnote 56: For accounts and explanations of animism see
Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, London, 1871, 2 vols.; Caspari,
_Urgeschichte der Menschheit_, Leipsic, 1877, 2 vols.;
Spencer's _Principles of Sociology_, part i.; and my _Myths and
Mythmakers_, chap. vii.]

[Footnote 57: No time should be lost in gathering and recording
every scrap of this folk-lore that can be found. The American
Folk-Lore Society, founded chiefly through the exertions of my
friend Mr. W. W. Newell, and organized January 4, 1888, is
already doing excellent work and promises to become a valuable
aid, within its field, to the work of the Bureau of Ethnology.
Of the _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, published for the
society by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., nine numbers have
appeared, and the reader will find them full of valuable
information. One may also profitably consult Knortz's _Maerchen
und Sagen der nordamerikanischen Indianer_, Jena, 1871;
Brinton's _Myths of the New World_, N. Y., 1868, and his
_American Hero-Myths_, Phila., 1882; Leland's _Algonquin
Legends of New England_, Boston, 1884; Mrs. Emerson's _Indian
Myths_, Boston, 1884. Some brief reflections and criticisms of
much value, in relation to aboriginal American folk-lore, may
be found in Curtin's _Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland_, pp.
12-27.]

But none of the characteristics of barbarous society above specified
will carry us so far toward realizing the gulf which divides it from
civilized society as the imperfect development of its domestic
relations. The impor