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a saying that "there is no woman for a hairy man"; but it 

 would appear that the fashion has changed in New Zealand, 

 perhaps owing to the presence of Europeans, and I am 

 assured that beards are now admired by the Maories." 



On the other hand, bearded races admire and greatly 

 value their beards; among the Anglo-Saxons every part of 

 the body 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, thought that beards 

 were a great ornament. In the Pacific the Fijian's beard 

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

 the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and 

 Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough chin." In one 

 island alone of the Elliee 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 endeavored 

 to express their highest ideal of beauty and grandeur.*' 

 Under this point of view it is well to compare 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 this 

 conclusion. Mr. Winwood Eeade, however, who has had 

 ample opportunities for observation, not only with the ne- 

 groes of the West Coast of Africa, but with those of the 



*• On the Siamese, Prichard, ibid., vol. iv. p. 533. On the Japanese, Veitoh 

 in "Gardeners' Chronicle," 1860, p. 1104. On the New Zealanders, Mante- 

 gazza, "Viag^ e Studi," 1867, p. 526. For the other nations mentioned, see 

 references in Lawrence, "Lectures on Physiology," etc., 1822, p. 272. 



«» Lubbock, "Origin of Civilization," 1870, p. 321. 



^ Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Prichard 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 "Traits de Legislation," 

 3d edit.,.1837, p. 136. 



