Just as with fashions and the changing shape of women, from plump and petite to the physique of the body builders, so it is with "civilization."
就像時裝，由緊到寬再窄、從長到短復又中庸；亦如女人，由豐腴纖細到健美、從葛蘭甄珍到波霸；所謂「文明」，竟也如此。