ORIGIN OF KISSING; THE SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION; AN OLD POET’S IDEA—KISSING IN ANCIENT ROME, AND AMONG THE JEWS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS—BIBLICAL KISSING—RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE—KISSING IN EARLY ENGLAND—ANCIENT KISSING CUSTOMS AS DESCRIBED BY ERASMUS—THE PURITANICAL VIEWS OF JOHN BUNYAN—HOW ADAM KISSED EVE—A KISS DEFINED: BY THE DICTIONARY, SHAKESPEARE, ROBERT HERRICK, SIDNEY, COLERIDGE—COMICAL AND SHORT DESCRIPTIONS—A GRAMMAR OF KISSING—THE SCIENTIFIC REASON WHY KISSES ARE PLEASANT. Of kissing it has been quaintly said that nature was its author and it began with the first courtship. The Scandinavian tradition was that kissing was an exotic introduced into England by Rowena, the beautiful daughte…
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