Nakedness

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

None of the Germanic tribes, who, dividing among themselves the provinces of the Caesarian empire, had tried to dress their barbaric nakedness in the torn but splendid garments of Roman civilization, had known like the Goths how to gather these fragments of purple and gold, to compose themselves in the example of civilized people.

In the most bombastic manner we call this the "richest nation on earth," and boast of our "untold millions of surplus products," while in fact we are always within a few months of starvation and nakedness.

I suppose nudists and doctors eventually reach the point where they look on nakedness as normal.

But Cicero does not seem even to have had a religious sentiment to cover the nakedness of his political opportunism. Not only does he in the Tusculan Disputations put aside in the Platonic fashion all the Homeric tales which anthropomorphize and discredit the gods; but in his treatise On Divination he shows an absolute disbelief in all the recognized practices, including the augury which he himself officially practised; and his sole excuse is that they are to be retained “on account of popular opinion and of their great public utility.”