of England, went to war from motives of patriotism, no doubt; but there are unmistakable evidences that they also regarded it as the greatest sport they were likely to have a chance at in a lifetime.  And there is evidence in plenty that the emotional attitude of women toward war is no less intense.  Grey[158] relates that half a dozen old women among the Australians will drive the men to war with a neighboring tribe over a fancied injury.  The Jewish maidens went out with music and dancing, and sang that Saul had slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.  Two American women who passed through the horrors of the siege of Pekin were, on their return, given a reception by their friends, and the daily press reported that they exhibited among other trophies “a Boxer’s sword with the blood still on the blade, which was taken from the body of a Boxer killed by the legation guards; and a Boxer spear with which a native Christian girl was struck down in Legation Street.”  It is not necessary to regard as morbid or vulgar the action of these ladies in bringing home reminders of their peril.  On the contrary, it is a sign of continued animal health and instinct in the race to feel deep interest in perilous situations and pleasure in their revival in consciousness.

“Unaccommodated man” was, to begin with, in relations more hostile than friendly.  The struggle for food was so serious a fact, and predaceousness to such a degree the habit of life, that a suspicious, hostile, and hateful state of mind was the rule, with exceptions only in the cases where truce, association, and alliance had come about in the course of experience.  This was still the state of affairs in so advanced a stage of development as the Indian society of North America, where a tribe was in a state of war with every tribe with which it had not made a treaty of peace; and it is perhaps true, generally speaking, of men today, that they regard others with a degree of distrust and aversion until they have proved themselves good fellows.  What, indeed, would be the fate of a man on the streets of a city if he did otherwise?  There has, nevertheless, grown up an intimate relation between man and certain portions of his environment; and this includes, not only his wife and children, his dog and his blood-brother, but, with lessening intensity, the members of his clan, tribe, and nation.  These become, psychologically speaking, a portion of himself, and stand with him against the world at large.  From the standpoint here outlined, prejudice or its analogue is the starting-point, and our question becomes one of the determination of the steps of the process by which man mentally allied with himself certain portions of his environment to the exclusion of others.