New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . endent curls in addition. Both the Greeks and the Romans sometimes Avore false hair trade was a flourishing one among tlie Romans, Avhoesteemed particularly the blonde hair of Germany. Among tlie nortliern nations—the Danes, the Gauls (GalliaComata^ the long-haired Gauls, as the Romans called them), the Anglo-Saxons, and theancient British, long andflowing hair was held in higl\estimation, and cutting it offwas inflicted as a punishmentfor var
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . endent curls in addition. Both the Greeks and the Romans sometimes Avore false hair trade was a flourishing one among tlie Romans, Avhoesteemed particularly the blonde hair of Germany. Among tlie nortliern nations—the Danes, the Gauls (GalliaComata^ the long-haired Gauls, as the Romans called them), the Anglo-Saxons, and theancient British, long andflowing hair was held in higl\estimation, and cutting it offwas inflicted as a punishmentfor various offenses. WhenJulius CjBsar vanquished theGauls, he made them cut offtheir liair, in token of , a cropped head be-ing^ in ancient times a bado^eof slaveiy. In France, according toGregory of Tours, it waslong the peculiar privilegeof royal blood to wear longflowing locks, while for allotiier jiersons there were gradations in the length and peculiarcut, down to the close-cropped slave. When a prince wasexcluded from the riglit of succession, liis liair was shorn, todenote that he was reduced to the condition of a Fisr 380.—Mrs. Mowatt Eitchib, THE CHURCH ON LONG HAIR 277 •From the time of Clovis the French nobility wore their hairshort; but as they grew less martial they allowed it to growlonger. Long hair was the prevailing fiashion at the court ofFrancis L, when that monarch, proud of the wound in hishead, appeared with short hair, and thereupon the stylebecame general. Long hair again came into vogue in the reign of Louis XIIL,and as curling was found inconvenient, wigs became fashionable. Then followed the reign of hair-powder, periwigs, andperukes of enormous dimensions, which, with many otherthings less preposterous, were swept away by the tide of thegreat French Revolution. THE CHURCH OI^ LONG HAIR. On the introduction of Christianity, the apostles and fathersof the Church launched severe invectives against the vanity and extravagance dis- p
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