religiously-kept

Updated: November 4, 2025

In some cases they also have been maintained as a survival of olden times, as a religiously-kept tradition of the past. I will terminate my remarks by mentioning another custom which also is a source of most erroneous conclusions. I mean the practice of blood-revenge. All savages are under the impression that blood shed must be revenged by blood.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution