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1826 Octr. 18
Review of Humphreys

2o
Ch. Agenda ?
§§ Registration ?
(1) or
H.'s Deficiencies
Lengthiness
Involvedness.
More lengthiness
Max imperfection

In itself the grammatical error fault is of no importance
But as no more man makes such faults knowingly, it is a
proof that the on the part of the practiced man in adequate
comprehension of the subject is wanting: much more on the part of the unpractised.

Involvedness, as already observed is the fertile mother of
incorrectness. The same cause which on former occasions produced
the effect in question in the instances already noticed, and from these samples
so, I can not but fear throughout the whole texture of the work, his law under
the topic of registration law produced as has been seen productive of
the same effect. In the involved form be the length of it the sentence ever so
☞ Contrast this with what
has already been said on
the subject
enormous, the whole length of it — be the particulars composed in it ever
so numerous and multifarious — of the whole
mass in all its magnitude of all the several in all their
multitude and variety, a clear a conception adequate in respect
of clearness must be obtained and perceived as any such exception
can be obtained of any one. But before the mind conception
has gone through the last it grows hard, it sinks into lassitude
his grasp becomes enfeebled it lets go its hold: and in a number more or less considerable
according to the degree of hopelessness and involvedness it lets th stop some
particulars altogether and of the rest forces itself to accept put up with
a conception more or less superficial and delusive

Serious disorders these: but a remedy, and that a merely an
effectual one is in one the reformist's hands. Incapably
easier of execution supposing both to be taken up at the hour
of commencement the for both of them is the uninvolved
plan or mode than the involved. Which of a dozen
objects for example which in the one place are huddled up and
squeezed packed up together in the compass of a single sentence, each of them
distinguished from the rest by a memorial figure, constitutes a sentence
of itself, so many sentences so many risky places
and at any time and at all times or at any time the mind
may stop at it for as long a time as can be requested for whatsoever
length and intensity of consideration presents itself at any time
as necessary: whereas in the involved plan, it the mind is dragged or pushed
through the sentence, without possibility of stopping any where like a

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Date_1	1826-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys
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