Thomas S. Gowing, The Philosophy of Beards — Introduction (1875)
“ O Fashion! most mighty, but most capricious of goddesses! what strange vagaries playest thou with the sons and daughters of men! What is there so lovely, that thou canst not, with a word, transform into an object of disgust and abhorrence? ”
Thomas S. Gowing, The Philosophy of Beards — Introduction (1875)
“ Perhaps no human feature has been more the subject of Fashion's changeable humours than the Beard, of which it is purposed to night to render some account, in the hope of being able to prove that in no instance has she been guilty of more deliberate offences against nature and reason! ”
Thomas S. Gowing, The Philosophy of Beards — Introduction (1875)
“ Our most universal and most imaginative Poet, whose single lines are often abstracts and epitomes of poems, makes Hamlet exclaim—"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! ”
