The Descent of Man

525-545; all the following statements, when
other references are not given, are taken from
this work. See, also, Waitz, 'Introduction to
Anthropology,' Eng. translat. vol. i. 1863, p. 275,
et passim. Lawrence also gives very full details
in his 'Lectures on Physiology,' 1822. Since this
chapter was written Sir J. Lubbock has published
his 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, in which
there is an interesting chapter on the present
subject, and from which (pp. 42, 48) I have taken
some facts about savages dyeing their teeth
and hair, and piercing their teeth.) That they
have a passion for ornament is notorious; and
an English philosopher goes so far as to maintain,
that clothes were first made for ornament
and not for warmth. As Professor Waitz remarks,
"however poor and miserable man is, he
finds a pleasure in adorning himself." The extravagance
of the naked Indians of South America
in decorating themselves is shewn "by a
man of large stature gaining with difficulty
enough by the labour of a fortnight to procure