Australia

﴾ Smith's view of the totemism of the Arabs ﴿ Smith holds that the Arabs in their most ancient times traced their descent to fathers among the animals or the plants, which they worshipped or held sacred and by whose names they called themselves, and that their case in marriage and mother-right and the rest was like the case of the savage tribes in Australia and America.

Some tribes in Australia have for their males one totem and for their females another totem, both of them other than the totem of the tribe.

It is general among the tribes of Australia and widely spread in northern America and in Panama, where the common totem is «the parrot»;

It may therefore be taken for granted that the progress of socialistic legislation and the trial of socialistic experiments in English colonies, such as the Australian Commonwealth, or in the United States, or even in an utterly foreign country, such as France, have promoted the growth of collectivism in England.

It would be ridiculous to assert that the citizens, for example, of the Australian Commonwealth suffer from oppressive laws;

The first man who carried a few rabbits with him to Australia and set them loose there to propagate their offspring at will, was no criminal;

though the same phenomena precisely have been recorded when currency was somewhat restricted, as, prior to the gold-discoveries in America and Australia, gold coin certainly was;

There is evidence that some of the islands of the Pacific were populated by boat-loads of men and a few women, and it would be no very violent conjecture that the aborigines of Australia and America originally reached their present homes with the sexes in this proportion.