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The liability to such lamentable revulsions is plainly due to some insufficiency in the religion to meet all the wants of human nature. To scold at that nature is puerile, and implies an ignorance of the task which religion undertakes.
The most puerile superstitions, as well as those most akin to a blind piety, found their way into his mind. When he received any bad news, he would cast aside forever the dress he was wearing when the news came; and of death he had a dread which was carried to the extent of pusillanimity and ridiculousness.
Their experience was not unlike that of numberless men of the last generation who first escaped from a puerile cosmology by way of popularized versions of Darwinism which the experts condemned as unscientific. Furthermore, Epicureanism provided a view of nature which was apt in the minds of an imaginative poet to lead toward romanticism.
Remonstrating, advising, but still obeying entirely without conscience, unless it were conscience to carry out his master's commands, even when most puerile or most diabolical he was nevertheless the object of Philip's constant suspicion, and felt himself placed under perpetual though secret supervision.
Tylor, the ideas are comparable with those of the black man's white supplanters. I would scarcely go so far. If we take, however, the best ideas attributed to the blacks, and hold them disengaged from the accretion of puerile fables with which they are overrun, then there are discovered notions of high religious value, undeniably analogous to some Christian dogmas.
One word from anybody belonging to me to anybody belonging to her on the subject, and . But threats are puerile. For the present, dear Aunt, I am, your devoted Nephew HUGH FLAXMAN. 'On probation! Flaxman chuckled as he sent off the letter. He stayed because he was too restless to be anywhere else, and because he loved the Elsmeres for Rose's sake and his own.
What is the use of bolstering up a presumably sincere religious movement with these puerile and mischievous statements? Knowing this, they concentrate their principal efforts on schools, hospitals and charitable relief, all based on friendly relations with the natives which have been patiently built up.
They are in the form of questions, some of them almost puerile ones, addressed to Barneveld by the Ambassador then just departing on his mission to France in 1614, with the answers written in the margin by the Advocate. The following is all that has reference to the Prince: "Of what matters may I ordinarily write to his Excellency?" Answer "Of all great and important matters."
We also have the impression of being carried away in the irresistible swing of this incomprehensible gayety, composed in proportions we can scarcely measure, of elements mystic, puerile and even ghastly.
His voice was fiercely quiet, and his eyes burned while he talked, as if he saw to the root of all things. He called himself John the Nothingarian. The lord of the castle related some of the plans which his counsellors had made for his greater usefulness. "They are puerile," said the Nothingarian, "futile, because they do not go to the root."
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