reader to
spend time
and
trouble in
understanding
that which
he would
have
understood
in a
moment
without
it; and
this makes
it look as
though the
writer had
more depth
and
intelligence
than the
reader.
This is,
indeed,
one of
those
artifices
referred
to above,
by means
of which
mediocre
authors
unconsciously,
and as it
were by
instinct,
strive to
conceal
their
poverty of
thought
and give
an
appearance
of the
opposite.
Their
ingenuity
in this
