'I would have the matter _distinguish itself_; it sufficiently shows _where it changes_, where it concludes, _where it begins, and where it resumes, without interlacing it with words of connection_, introduced for the relief of _weak or negligent ears_, and without commenting myself. Who is he that had not rather not be read at all, than after a drowsy or _cursory_ manner? Seeing I cannot fix the reader's attention by the _weight_ of what I write, _maneo male_, if I should chance _to do it by my intricacies_. [Hear]. I mortally hate obscurity and _would avoid it if I could. In such an employment_, to whom you will not give an hour you will give nothing; _and you do nothing for him for whom you only do, whilst you are doing something else_. To which may be added, that I have, perhaps, some particular obligation to speak only _by halves_, to speak _confusedly and discordantly_.' But this is, perhaps, enough to show, in the way of direct assertion, that we have here, at least, a philosophical work composed in that style which Lord Bacon calls 'the enigmatical,' in which he tells us the _secrets_ of knowledge are reserved for _selected auditors_, or wits of such sharpness as can pierce the veil; a style which he, too, tells us was sometimes used by the discretion of the ancients, though he does not specify either Plutarch or Plato; in that place, and one which he introduces in connection with his new method of progression, in consequence of its having, as he tells us, _some affinity_ with it, and that we have here also a specimen of that new method itself, by means of which knowledge is to be delivered as a thread to be spun on.