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1 A famous remark (concerning Queen Elizabeth I of England
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(1558-1603) tells us that she took a bath once a month "whether
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since most people in the developed world take a daily bath or
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line of forward progress from a very dirty past to our very clean
now: we think we have been getting steadily cleaner)] CHECKCHECKED in
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much of Europe, the two centuries which followed Elizabeth I were
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probably the dirtiest in recorded history. The monarch who
succeeded Elizabeth, James I is reported to have washed only his
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fingers. Around the same time, across the English Channel, the
future King of France, Louis XIII, did not have a bath until he was
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( 2 ), Romans of all classes spent several hours a day in baths of
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Perhaps, what people consider as being clean or dirty depends
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on the cultural, social and religious beliefs and attitudes of the
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time. For example, there was a time when Christians probably
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smelled somewhat. In the early Middle Ages especially, (3)the whether... or not
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religion's emphasis on the spirit]resulted, for several centuries, in
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some Christians neglecting to wash their bodies: for them, having
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a pure soul was much more important than having a clean body. developed world
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Yet although these Christians smelled, (4)since this was the case
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for everybody, nobody noticed.
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took a bath several times a week, were viewed with suspicion by since this is the case
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dirty Europeans.
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They decided (6) this strange habit must be 4.
dirty Europeans
caused by the inferior Turkish food, religion and climate.
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5 As for our 21st century global world, well, we certainly spend a
lot of time cleaning our bodies. However, some people worry that
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the cleaning products we use on ourselves may be harming our
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earth] It has been suggested [that after we wash the products off,
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traces of the chemicals in them may be entering our water supply]
Strange to say, the more we clean our bodies, the more we dirty
our world.
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