ON THE PRINCIPLE OF ORDER IN CIVILIZATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY CHANGES OF FASHION

Footnotes

1. ¹The Psychology of Peoples, London, 1898 (New York, 1912), page 12, footnote.

2. ²Ralph Roister Doister, published 1566; Gammer Gurton's Needle, 1575; Lyly, wrote 1580-93; Greene died 1592, Kyd 1594, Peele 1598; blank verse in Tamburlaine, 1587; Shakspere's first period, 1589–1594; Marlowe died 1593; Shakspere's second period, 1594–1601; third period—“Hamlet,” “Othello,” “Lear,” “Macbeth”—1601-08; Jonson wrote chiefly 1598–1614; Shakspere's fourth period, 1608-13; Webster's best plays, 1612, 1616; Beaumont died 1616; Fletcher died 1625; Ford's best plays, 1629-34; Massinger, first play 1620, died 1639; closing of the playhouses. 1642.

3. ¹ Compare Quetelet's bold attempt in Du Système Social, 1848, to determine a normal duration of empires and cities.

4. † S. Lane-Poole, The Mohammedan Dynasties, 1894. See especially “Growth” and “Decline of the Ottoman Empire,” pages 190, 191; also “Mogul Emperors” on diagram facing page xx.

5. ¹ Mouth to toe, or to lowest point of skirt if the toe is covered.

6. ¹The numbers are too small for satisfactory graphic plotting, but indicate that with a larger series of cases the lines for trained and trainless skirts would roughly parallel the combined line shown—one above and one below it. At least two times out of three, perhaps oftener, they would move in the same direction.

7. ¹ Clark Wissler, American Anthropologist, N.s., vol. xviii, pp. 190–197, 1916, points out that the distribution of sherds of certain decorative styles in the successive levels of the refuse heap at the ancient New Mexican pueblo of San Cristobal, as excavated and reported on by N. C. Nelson, follows typical curves, these curves each representing “the rise and decline of a culture trait.” Each foot of debris may be taken as representing an approximately equal duration of deposition, as indicated by the fairly steady number of sherds of all types found at each depth. The figures are, for black-on-white painted ware, (103), 107, 118, 40, 8, 2, 6, 10, 2, 2; and for black or brown glazed yellow ware, o, 3, 45, 91, 192, 128, 52, 68, 64, 24. The latter series may be skew.