ON BOWINGS AND SCRAPINGS.
"It is evident from a purely scientific point of view that there is good in the association of graceful and stately movements, with the highest conceptions of which we are capable. It is foolish, then, io speak with contempt of bowings and scrapings and genuflexions. There is an intimate relation In tween mental and bodily at! it uiles ; i lie '-lately' ritual, rightly r t i. ay i; - iuxtrc.nu ntal i:t fostering a !■:•'■ i,r:i religions spirit In (lie bulk c. mankind. liven the rigid Calvinists have come to recognise this in seme degree. Whv should seemly hearing and graceful move? menls lie out of place in a church when they are deemed medial at Conn or in a drawing-room Why should in: lounge and 101 l and contort ourselves in the presence ol our most sacred associations, whatever thus: may be. in a manner that we should not, think of adopting in the present" nf a .fudge and jury, or a pretty woinr„ t -Sir .lames Crichton-Browne in his u v. hook, " Victorian .To.tings.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 4
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178ON BOWINGS AND SCRAPINGS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 4
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