Note 1619 — Chapter XII · THE SEXUAL SELECTION OF MAN: TYPICAL BEAUTY
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Speaking of the Rejangs of Sumatra, Marsden says (loc. cit. p. 206), ‘The quick, and to them inexplicable, revolutions of our fashions are subject of much astonishment, and they naturally conclude that those modes can have but little intrinsic merit which we are so ready to change.'