The kiss and its history

CHAPTER I

WHAT IS A KISS?

It may perhaps seem somewhat futile to begin with discussing what a kiss is: that every child of course knows. We are greeted with kisses directly we enter the world, and kisses follow us all our life long, as Hölty sings--

Giving kisses, snatching kisses, Keeps the busy world employed. W. F. H.

Nevertheless the question is not altogether ...