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Excerpt from Wimples and Crisping-Pins: Being Studies in the Coiffure and Ornaments of Women
But you Will say that hair is but an excremen titious thing. - T/wmas Howell, Familiar Letters. Herder, the stupendous German philosopher, compared hair to a sacred forest covering the mys teries of thought. The human body, he imagined, being the type of order par excellence, contains in the hair natural disorder similar to the confusion of the hirsute growths of the earth, which are forests.
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