There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration 1 we suspect. Huxley has 2 that Western ladies did not take frequent baths 3 they were afraid to see their own 4 bodies, and this moral concept delayed the 5 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, 6 in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human 7 only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood furniture was designed for people to sit 8 in, because that was the only posture 9 by society.
Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a(n) 10 on which I would not think of 11 for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about 12 on a couch carried by servants, because 13 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have 14 her shins with a stick, as he did 15 one of his old disciples, Yuan Yan, when 16 was found sitting in a(n) 17 posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to 18 themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal 19 , and any sign of putting one"s leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of 20 .