Chap. XIX.] BEAUTY. 333 



On the other hand, bearded races admire and greatly 

 value their beards ; among the Anglo-Saxons every part 

 of the body, according to their laws, had a recognized 

 value ; " the loss of the beard being estimated at twenty 

 shillings, while the breaking of a thigh was fixed at only 

 twelve." " In the East, men swear solemnly by their 

 beards. "We have seen that Chinsurdi, the chief of the 

 Makalolo in Africa, evidently thought that beards were a 

 great ornament. With the Fijians in the Pacific the 

 beard is " profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride ; " 

 wliile the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of 

 Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough 

 chin." In one island alone of the Ellice group " the men 

 are heavily bearded, and not a little proud thereof." '"' 



We thus see how widely the different races of man 

 differ in their taste for the beautiful. In every nation 

 sufficiently advanced to have made effigies of their gods 

 or of their deified rulers, the sculptors no doubt have en- 

 deavored to express their highest ideal of beauty and 

 grandeur." Under this point of view it is well to com- 

 pare in our mind the Jupiter or Apollo of the Greeks with 

 the Egyptian or Assyrian statues ; and these with the 

 hideous bass-reliefs on the ruined buildings of Central 

 America. 



I have met with very few statements opposed to the 

 above conclusion. Mr. Winwood Reade, however, who 

 has had ample opportunities for observation, not only 

 with the negroes of the West Coast of Africa, but with 



tioned, see references in Lawrence, 'Lectures on Physiology,' etc. 1822, 

 p. 272. 



" Lubbock, 'Origin of Civilization,' 18Y0, p. 321. 



*" Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Pritchard and others for these facts 

 in regard to the Polynesians, in 'Anthropological Review,' April, 1870, 

 pp. 185, 191. 



*' Ch. Comte has remarks to this effect in his ' Traite de Legislation,' 

 3d. edit. 1837, p. 136. 



