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The modern cult of originality would have meant nothing to Rubens; he would have regarded it as a form of self-emasculation.

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There was hardly an early council, great or small, that did not condemn this custom, as well as the other one, still more painful to think of, of self-emasculation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various