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Updated: May 29, 2025
After tiring themselves with the freaks of a mad Irish boy who had entered into the spirit of his own cross-examination with a high sense of buffoonery which refused to grow ill-tempered, they were now playing on the extreme gullibility of a heavy, open-mouthed, bullet-headed fellow, named Plumber, from whom the most astounding information could extract no greater evidence of sensation than a little wider stare of the eyes, and an unexcited drawl of "Really though?"
Only for this task is required, not the gullibility that characterizes the many, but the sagacity that distinguishes the few. Mr. Woodcock undertook not to be deceived as to what had been done in the jail while he was forty miles distant and Hawes gulled him under his own eyes. What different men there are in the world, and how differently are the same things seen by them!
It gives sound commercial advice about avoiding becoming surety for a friend. It laughs, a little bitterly, at the thought that friendship can be as common as the eager, generous heart of youth imagines. It almost sneers at the gullibility of men in this whole matter. "He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction."
It is hard not to suspect that here may be something different from a mere chapter in human gullibility. It may be a genuine realm of natural phenomena. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, once a cheat, always a cheat, such has been the motto of the English psychical researchers in dealing with mediums. I am disposed to think that, as a matter of policy, it has been wise.
Here the tutor is still active, and prepares the meeting with Sophie which Emile takes for accidental. It is needless to remark again on the young man's gullibility. He is Rousseau's creature, and fashioned as his maker pleases. Nothing is more disturbing than to submit the dreams of such a man as Jean Jacques to the unsympathetic rules of common sense.
But I swore to myself that Tripp's whiskey dollar would not be forthcoming. He might play knight-errant at my expense, but he would indulge in no wassail afterward, commemorating my weakness and gullibility. In a kind of chilly anger I put on my coat and hat. Tripp, submissive, cringing, vainly endeavoring to please, conducted me via the street-cars to the human pawn-shop of Mother McGinnis.
He smiled, and for the first time she saw a sneer disfigure his lips. "Not even you, Miss Cary. You have done a great deal with me enough perhaps to justify your wildest hopes but you have touched the limits of your powers and of my gullibility. Or did you think there were no limits?" "I do not recognize you when you talk like that!" she exclaimed.
The newspaper sensation and the praise that had attended the discovery and gift warming and exalting Judge Harvey's very human pride had been followed by an anti-climax of gibes and jeers at his gullibility.
The fond, silly, credulous man, all impulse and no reflection, how my heart swells when I contemplate this excellent character! What a Canaan for you does it present! I envy you launching into the world with the sanguine hope of finding all men such! Delightful enthusiasm of youth, would that the hope could be realized! Here is the very incarnation of gullibility.
The reform of ourselves is no doubt an heroic measure never to be overlooked, and, in the face of accusations of gullibility, bribability, amenability to beer and balderdash, our poor humanity can only stand abashed, and feebly demur to the bad English in which the charges are conveyed. But we can't all lose hope. We remember Sir David Ramsay's reply to Lord Rea, once quoted by Carlyle himself.
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