Excerpt from Kissing Its Curious Bible Mentions The East is the very home of warm feelings and demonstrative actions. In the open life of Palestine, to which a hot dry climate and highly primitive manners alike contribute, and which leaves so little place or occasion for privacy, this fact becomes strongly forced Upon a stranger's notice. One is especially struck by the frequency and publicity with which the act of kissing occurs. With us such a greeting is confined to near relations and lovers, and is witnessed, for the ...
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Excerpt from Kissing Its Curious Bible Mentions The East is the very home of warm feelings and demonstrative actions. In the open life of Palestine, to which a hot dry climate and highly primitive manners alike contribute, and which leaves so little place or occasion for privacy, this fact becomes strongly forced Upon a stranger's notice. One is especially struck by the frequency and publicity with which the act of kissing occurs. With us such a greeting is confined to near relations and lovers, and is witnessed, for the most part, only in the seclusion of home. In the East it takes place constantly amongst many other persons between whom no such ties exist, and in the presence of all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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