Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted ...upon them by their European civilizers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our whole walk was through a thoroughly Catholic country, and there was no trace of any other religion. I doubt if there are any m...ore simple and unsophisticated Catholics anywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck t...o your neighbor. He had got to find him out as you did. He would not play any part. Men paid him wages for work, and so helped to feed and clothe him; but he never exchanged opinions with them. He was so simply and naturally humble--if he can be called humble who never aspires--that humility was no distinct quality in him, nor could he conceive of it. Wiser men were demigods to him.... He particularly reverenced the writer and the preacher. Their performances were miracles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »