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Her delight in being blindfolded spoke very clearly for her naïve sincerity, but her failure indicated no less clearly that she must be dependent upon unintentional signs for her success. Let me say at once that some of the observers would probably object to my statement that the presence of the family was needed and that she had to be in such direct connection with them.
Romantic and conservative in religion, enthusiastic for whatsoever the Jewish genius produced, naive in his conception of life, he let his activity play upon all the fields of literature. His language is the Hebrew of Isaiah.
Thousands who have a keen appreciation of "loaves and fishes" shrink from "leaving all" and following Jesus. A great concourse is drawn and held spell-bound by a naive, graceful, eloquent, artless preacher who uses "lilies," and the "grass of the field," and the "sower" of seed, and the "sparrow" in the air to enforce his truth. But one may be interested, and yet not be saved.
If she wanted to tell you somebody had praised the rose of her cheek, she told you she was so touched by everybody's goodness in loving to give pleasure; then she proved her point by naive repetition of the pretty speech. Sometimes she even, in the humility of the other Esther, deprecated the flattery as insincere; but not before she had told you what it was.
And about two days later he would come to undergo the same torture again. One day he asked her timidly: "Sophya Pavlovna! Have you ever had any children?" "No." "I thought not!" exclaimed Foma with delight. She cast at him the look of a very naive little girl, and said: "What made you think so? And why do you want to know whether I had any children or not?"
Mr Armstrong could scarcely help smiling at the banker's naive suggestion as to the use of the document as evidence of handwriting. The note was as follows: "Dear Mr Morris, I write to you in strictest confidence. My father probably has given me up for dead. I hope so. On no account must he know that I have written to you. My object is to enclose a twenty- five dollar note which I owe him.
Where sexual license prevails it is made a feature in religious ritual and other ceremonies after it has become a part of social usage and law. It is true that it is generally at first naïve, and, being not illegal, is not a violation of rights and not immoral in the sense in which a refined age regards it.
It is true that decency, as we understand it, is a very modern product, and it is not to be looked for in any society in the barbarous stage. At the same time, the whole range of literature might perhaps be ransacked for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Sec. One passage likewise would lead us to suppose that the most beastly crimes were commonly committed."
Vain of trivial things all the first half of her life, and still vain of them at seventy and recording them with naive satisfaction even rescuing some early rhymes of hers of the sort that we all scribble in the innocent days of our youth rescuing them and printing them without pity or apology, just as the weakest and commonest of us do in our gray age.
Beside the sensualism of the Chansons de Geste, the sentiment expressed in them may seem naïve; beside the gallantry of the Provençal poetry, it may seem primitive; but nevertheless it is, in its very simplicity, the profoundest note that can be struck in this world of men and women.
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