Crying
Subtitle: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393321036
First sentence: An anonymous British pamphlet from 1755, Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species, proposed a number of ideas for human improvement, and among them was the idea that something called "moral weeping" would help: We may properly distinguish weeping into two general kinds, genuine and counterfeit; or into physical crying and moral weeping.