[20] _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Part III, Sect. III. Mem. IV. Subs. I.
[21] N. Venette, _La Generation de l'Homme_, Part II, Ch. X.
[22] _Monsieur Nicolas_, vol. i, p. 94.
[23] Kryptadia, vol. ii, p. 26, 31. Ib. vol. iii, p. 162.
[24] "Modesty is, at first," said Renouvier, "a fear which we have of
displeasing others, and of blushing at our own natural imperfections."
(Renouvier and Prat, _La Nouvelle Monadologie_, p. 221.)
[25] C. Richet, "Les Causes du Degout," _L'Homme et l'Intelligence_, 1884.
This eminent physiologist's elaborate study of disgust was not written as
a contribution to the psychology of modesty, but it forms an admirable
introduction to the investigation of the social factor of modesty.
[26] It is interesting to note that where, as among the Eskimo, urine, for
instance, is preserved as a highly-valuable commodity, the act of
urination, even at table, is not regarded as in the slightest degree
disgusting or immodest (Bourke, _Scatologic Rites_, p. 202).
[27] Hawkesworth, _An Account of the Voyages_, etc., 1775, vol. ii, p. 52.
[28] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, vol. vi, p. 173.
[29] Stevens, "Mittheilungen aus dem Frauenleben der Orang Belendas,"
_Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, Heft 4, p. 167, 1896. Crawley, (_Mystic
Rose_, Ch. VIII, p. 439) gives numerous other instances, even in Europe,
with, however, special reference to sexual taboo.
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