Our society . N a rude state of society,says a certain writer, everysalutation is to this day an actof worship. Hence the com-monest acts, phrases and signsof courtesy, with which we arenow familiar, date from thoseearlier stages when the stronghand ruled, and the inferior demonstratedhis allegiance by studied Thismay be true of the stereotyped form,—theletter of the salutation, but cannot be of the prefer to think that since human beings firsttrod the earth, they instinctively felt the necessity of in someway acknowledging each others presence, that the mer
Our society . N a rude state of society,says a certain writer, everysalutation is to this day an actof worship. Hence the com-monest acts, phrases and signsof courtesy, with which we arenow familiar, date from thoseearlier stages when the stronghand ruled, and the inferior demonstratedhis allegiance by studied Thismay be true of the stereotyped form,—theletter of the salutation, but cannot be of the prefer to think that since human beings firsttrod the earth, they instinctively felt the necessity of in someway acknowledging each others presence, that the mere fact ofeye meeting eye must have caused them to feel very much thesame pleasurable sensation which we now experience in com-ing within the range of vision of a friend, and that the heartnaturally set about inventing some graceful and fitting outwardexpression of this recognition. True, this has crystalized nowinto a mere formula, and empty enough it is sometimes, we allknow, but, as Carlyle says: What we call formulas a
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