The intent is with them the touchstone of propriety.

In their eyes a state of nature is not a state of indecency.
Whatever exposure is required for convenience is right; whatever unnecessary, wrong.

Such an Eden-like condition of society would seem to be the very spot for a something like the modern French school of art to have developed in.

And yet it is just that study of the nude which has from immemorial antiquity been entirely neglected in the Far East.

An ancient Greek, to say nothing of a modern Parisian, would have shocked a Japanese.