Show psychology OF THE KISS learned english has ha dk di elded aided osculation into two distinct classes in a learned disquisition on kisses sir ray lankester divides them into two classes orle one class takes the tha form of 0 nose rubbing each kiss hiss g giver I 1 ver rubbing his nose aga against that ot of the other the second kind which is ii that familiar to us consists in pressing the lips against the lips skin or hair of 0 another individual and making a short quick inspiration resulting in a more or less audible sound both kinds are really of the nature oi of sniffling the active effort to smell or ex alore by the olfactory sense tha kissing of one another by grownup grown up men was abandoned in this country in the eighteenth century but we have most of us witnessed it abroad and perhaps been unexpectedly subjected to the process as I 1 once WM wail by an affectionate scientific colleague the russians are the most profuse and indiscriminate of european peoples in their kissing I 1 have seen been a russian about to go on a journey devoured by the kisses of his relations and household retainers male and female |