Capitolo 34
it appears in front of the king it has to appear rigid nude, while in England,
whoever appears in front of the queen it has to bring the sword of a tailor or a
train of silk along and a headgear of ostrich-pens; because, in
Morocco, when You digita a mosque, you have to remove Your shoes and
takes a violent cold to show Your respect for Allah;
while in Europe, on to digitize a religious and similar building you owe
discovers Your head, any matter as draughty that the place can be, since then
the divinity that he/she presides there seems to be indifferent to the
danger of the consumption or the chest-illnesses for his/her worshippers; because
the certain suits or foods are prescribed in London or Paris for
Sundays and Friday, while certain others, only equally warm or
digestible or the contrary one, is perfectly legal to the whole world
likewise Tuesday and Saturdays. These were the curious questions
he had come to investigate for till now that the fakirs and
dervishes of every earth gave so fantastic reasons: and he saw him
it would not have difficulty in to pick up abundant examples of his
subject-matter everywhere in England. As the metropolis of taboo,
it exhibited the phenomenons in their taller evolution. The only one
thing that has confused him was as the Phillip Christy a born English,,
and evidently a more devoted observer of the manifold taboos and
juggernauts of its country, should deny a lot indeed them
existence. It was a more impermeable to him of the extreme caution
necessary in all the anthropological investigations before accepting
the evidence also of natives well intenzionato on stings of religious or
social use of which they is often rather childishly incapable
describing in rational terms to inquiring of out. They takes them
own manners and customs for granted, and they cannot see them in
their true relationships or it compares them with the similar manners and
customs of the other nationalities.
IV
If Christy liked the Phillip or not, the Monteiths and he was
soon enough salesclerk to a near knowledge tolerably with Bertram