FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE Prose "Eighty Millions of Tartars" [1850's]. A.MS draft. Box 32 Folder 10307 [1888 14 April] 1850's Eighty Millions of Tartars: prose. A.MS. (1p. 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.) Written in ink, with the first line in pencil, on a piece of lined paper torn from a larger sheet (with notation in lower corner by Trauble: see notes April 14 1888), 102 words: Japanese women mothers shave their eyebrows [Eighty] Eighty millions of Tartars may share the top of the head from Comparison to Self-Esteem [and - from] and so on down to the ears; and this may be done for thirty centuries, and be one of the institutions of the empire. --But if [one] a man appears at the end of that time in whose eyes the custom is unnatural and therefore ungraceful, [that one] this man will be none the less right because he is denied by a hundred generations, --whose coronal [regions] fronts were well scraped, and whose pig tails hung down behind[*Japanese women mothers shave their eyebrows*] [Eightyt] Eighty millions of Tartars may shave the top of the head from Comparison to Self-Esteem, [and from] and so on down to the ears; and this may be done for thirty centuries, and be one of the institutions of the empire.—But if [one] a man appears at the end of that time in whose eyes the custom is unnatural and therefore ungraceful, [that] this man will be none the less right because he is denied by a hundred generations,— whose coronal fronts [regions] were well scraped, and whose pig tails hung down behind [*see notes April 14 1888*]