Note 28 — JESUIT MISSIONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

After citing numerous examples from the customs of various nations, Herbert Spencer concludes—Ceremonial Institutions (New York, 1880), pp. 128–131: “It seems that removal of the hat among European peoples, often reduced among ourselves to touching the hat, is a remnant of that process of unclothing himself by which, in early times, the captive expressed the yielding up of all that he had.” ↑