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be granted, have been developed from beginnings in unreflective and hardly conscious expressions. There may, it may further be granted, be a scientific inquiry into such naïve quasi-artistic expressions. But such inquiries can only be of a theoretical character. As a general rule, there can be no practical science of a naïve, unconscious mode of utterance; for as soon as it becomes the object of practical study as to how it may best be performed, it ceases to be naïve. Such a thing is only possible in case the mode of expression is so connected with the personality that no matter how much its author reflects upon it, he never can look upon it in a purely objective way, but looking through it, so to speak, can never see it as another would see it. Now dress and personal adornment is about the only mode of expression of this description. A man may look at himself in the glass; but he never will appear to himself as he appears to others, no matter how shallow his soul may be. For though we may wish we had that gift,