Sir John Lubbock
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Anthropologist author of 'Origin of Civilisation', quoted on ancestor-worship theory.
‘Although,’ says Sir John Lubbock, ‘descent amongst the lowest savages is traced in the female line, I do not know of any instance in which female ancestors were worshipped.
‘The idol,’ writes Sir John Lubbock, ‘usually assumes the human form, and idolatry is closely connected with that form of religion which consists in the worship of ancestors.
Law in a Free State
A public figure referenced for his fond recollection of the old curfew-bell era and its punishments for dishonest brewers and bakers.
In the good old days of the curfew bell, which Sir John Lubbock looks back upon with such yearning, wicked brewers who made bad beer were condemned to stand in the dung-cart, while bakers of bad bread went to the pillory.