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is one of the subjects in which the intellect of the peasant is least removed from that of the savage, both representing early stages in the development of mind.^[1]

↑ The above paragraph, now first inserted, will serve to remove a misapprehension which I notice in Sir John Lubbock's 'Origin of Civilization,' chap, i., where he mentions me as "regarding it (the couvade) as evidence that the races by whom it is practised belong to one variety of the human species." Some want of clearness in my remarks must have led him to read them in a sense so wide of their intention. For particulars of the German superstition as to godfathers and godchildren, see Wuttke, 'Deutsche Volksaberglaube,' 2nd edition, Berlin, 1868, p. 364; their analogy with the couvade was pointed out by Bastian in the paper already referred to. [Note to 3rd Edition.]

[1] The above paragraph, now first inserted, will serve to remove a misapprehension which I notice in Sir John Lubbock's 'Origin of Civilization,' chap, i., where he mentions me as "regarding it (the couvade) as evidence that the races by whom it is practised belong to one variety of the human species." Some want of clearness in my remarks must have led him to read them in a sense so wide of their intention. For particulars of the German superstition as to godfathers and godchildren, see Wuttke, 'Deutsche Volksaberglaube,' 2nd edition, Berlin, 1868, p. 364; their analogy with the couvade was pointed out by Bastian in the paper already referred to. [Note to 3rd Edition.]

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