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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