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through love entanglements is even given as a main reason for the killing of girls among the old Arabs (*Anthropos*, iii, p. 62 ff. Perhaps a misunderstanding? Cp. Welhausen, *Gött. Nachr.* (1893), p. 458). Dubois ed. Beauchamp³, p. 207, even states that Indian maidens could not be entrusted with their own honour up to their marriageable years, since they would not be able to resist temptation. “Therefore measures cannot be taken too early to place them intact in their husband’s hands.” On the other hand he himself declares on p. 314 that “Hindu women are naturally chaste”; and on p. 354 he remarks that they are chaster than the women of many lands possessing a higher culture.