Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgmen...t, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jefferson's posthumous works were very generally circulated whilst I was in America. They are a mighty mass of mischief. He wrote ...with more perspicuity than he thought, and his hot-headed democracy has done a fearful injury to his country. Hollow and unsound as his doctrines are, they are but too palatable to a people, each individual of whom would rather derive his importance from believing that none are above him, than from the consciousness that in his station he makes part of a noble whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its featur...es. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »