Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . be ijurned for the sake of thesoda which it thus S. satira is the chiefBarilla () plant of the south of Spain. Salutations are customary forms of addressat meeting or at parting, or of ceremonial onreligious or state occjisions, including both formsof .speech and gestures. Through the influence ofheredity anil habit many of these have becomerellex irrepressible actions, their forti-fied with all the sanctity of moral or religiousobligation. For although it is true that eti(|uelteis enlirelya matter of rela
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . be ijurned for the sake of thesoda which it thus S. satira is the chiefBarilla () plant of the south of Spain. Salutations are customary forms of addressat meeting or at parting, or of ceremonial onreligious or state occjisions, including both formsof .speech and gestures. Through the influence ofheredity anil habit many of these have becomerellex irrepressible actions, their forti-fied with all the sanctity of moral or religiousobligation. For although it is true that eti(|uelteis enlirelya matter of relative, and not absolute,obligation, ami that such a feeling as modestyitself is mainly a question of latitude, yet the aver-age modern European dreails the unfavouralile judg-ment of society upon a solecism more than thecondemnation of ids own conscience on snme breachof the weightier matters of the law. And it seemsto be a general rule among races of men, not tospeak of individuals, that extremes of ccrimonionssalutation stand in iuverse ratio to tlieir moral. Prickly Saltwort (ScUsola kali). 124 SALUTATIONS value. The ceremonious politeness of modernEurope has desremleil in };ieat from tlieunworthy roj^inie of the Lower KiiMian Eniiiire,and its traditions, now as well as then, are in-capable of hein^ taken literally, its metaphorstranslated into faet. It is a eomideto mistake tosupjiose that sava;,es are at all iniormal or extem-porary in their salutations and ceremonies. Salu-tations tend to hecome less elaiiorate in ])ro-gressive civilisation, the tendency l)ein>j towardthe preservation only of those which help tosoften the asperities of intercourse. Savagesare much more given to gesticulation thancivilised men. Vet it is unsafe to say tliatthis depends solely upon degrees of culture, forthere is a wide ditlerence at the present daybetween the Neapolitan or Tarasconese and theGerman or Scotchman. No race has neglected theuse of gesture more than the Engl
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