The Descent of Man

een stirred to the bottom of his soul by having
partaken of unclean food. Here is another case
of what must, I think, be called remorse. Dr.
Landor acted as a magistrate in West Australia,
and relates (28. 'Insanity in Relation to Law,'
Ontario, United States, 1871, p. 1.), that a native
on his farm, after losing one of his wives from
disease, came and said that, "he was going to a
distant tribe to spear a woman, to satisfy his
sense of duty to his wife. I told him that if he
did so, I would send him to prison for life. He
remained about the farm for some months, but
got exceedingly thin, and complained that he
could not rest or eat, that his wife's spirit was
haunting him, because he had not taken a life
for hers. I was inexorable, and assured him that
nothing should save him if he did." Nevertheless
the man disappeared for more than a
year, and then returned in high condition; and
his other wife told Dr. Landor that her husband
had taken the life of a woman belonging to a
distant tribe; but it was impossible to obtain