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Making Of America Project, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books The-Galaxy-Volume-2~~Making-of-America-Project General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN AETIOLE OF FEMALE DKESS, HE most meaning, perhaps, because one of the broadest and deepest, of the little designs of Hans Holbein which are included in the single name cf "The Dance of Death," represents Adam and Eve moving dejectedly out of Paradise, with eyes bent on the ground wherein lay the expiation of their sin, while before them, but unseen by their eyes, leaps the new-born figure of Death, dancing and curveting with hideous delight. Other pictures of the expulsion omit this part, but represent Eve with her long hair trailing behind her, loose, like a token of her former unimpaired freedom ? drooping, like an outward expression of the first sorrow of the world; and she, as well as Adam, is unclothed except in the fig-leaf aprons. A little later, and the curse has fairly begun its work. Adam digs and delves, in the sentenced sweat of his brow, while Eve nurses her first-born and attends to such domestic duties as she then had, but both have found clothing necessary and are accordingly roughly clothed. Covering was the first impulse after breaking the Divine command, as if, the body covered, the sin and the sinners would also be covered from the eye they dreaded; bread was the first necessity, but soon growing tendernesses of body and growing roughnesses in the outer world came up, and the two great twin wants, eternal as the race, began to inarch hand in hand. Thenceforward, the body cries unceasingly from cradle to grave; and though man can never eat more than when Adam painfully harvested his first crop and Eve prepared her first meal, however he may tar himself to multiply variety, there seems to be no limit to his exaggeration of the fellow want, covering, nor any bounds to the increase of the number and quantity of the things he can wear. Viewed, in that respect,...<

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