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The Venetians, in fact, were not free from the mistake of those over-clever people who will credit their opponents with no irrational and inconsiderate conduct.
But the variety of intellectual types, the careless and the uncritical, the over-clever and the illogical thinkers, could easily protect themselves against the dangers of the shortcomings in their mental mechanism if their minds had not another trait, which, too, is more frequent in America than anywhere else in the world—the lack of respect for the expert.
They think that they can figure it out by mere logic and overlook the hard realities. They resemble another group of victims who can be found in the midst of commercial life, the over-clever people who rely on especially artificial arguments.
"At my house?" interrogated the doctor. "It is impossible." "Why?" asked the stranger, quickly. "Because I am not married I have no wife, no sister." "But you have women-servants, surely?" was the hasty rejoinder. "Only one, and she is not over-clever." "You can get more. My wife must have help. Send all over the place get the best nurses, the best help possible. Do not study expense.
He won't go up here with us to try and dislodge them, but will try, I expect, to lure them down into the open somewhere, so as to give us a chance at them." "They'll be too cunning," I said. "They fight only from behind stones, and in holes." "Yes, they're cunning enough," said Denham; "but, like all over-clever people, they make mistakes, or find others quite as cunning.
She was sincere, good-tempered, and affectionate; not over-clever, being more gifted with heart than brains; rather vain, which fault her extreme prettiness half excused; always anxious to do right, yet, from a want of decision of character, often contriving to do wrong. But she completely charmed the simple Olive with her beauty, her sparkling, winning cheerfulness, and her ready sympathy.
For, Stupidity and all, there was a real inborn and inbred integrity, uprightness, straightforwardness, and nobleness about this little and not over-clever man-child. And, on the principle of "to him that hath shall be given," there was something like a special providence that hedged this boy about from the beginning.
Ornaments has she none but those that God has given her: a sweep of blond hair, a long, cool throat, and two smooth arms that lie bare and white as any milk on her lap. As he nervously draws near, she lifts her eyes with a lovely friendliness to his face. He is poor, slightly thought of, sickly, not over-clever; probably she will talk to him all the evening.
"I think I had better go with you," the supervisor said, "and then they won't try any over-clever work. Horse-dealing isn't always the most guileless business, you know." "So I've understood," Hamilton said, "and I really don't know enough to judge the fine points of a horse." "I was born and bred in the Blue Grass," his friend remarked, "and so I've been around horses pretty much all my days.
We can trust Nantok all right to take good care of her, and then I'll get Peter to send down an armed guard." Kirke acquiesced in silence. He was a tall, thin man, not over-clever, whose fervent Christianity was strangely at variance with a constitutional inclination to see the darker side of things.
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