His introduction hooked me... > A young man would hardly be persuaded to sacrifice the greater part of his thoughts to save the rest; and the muddled head is t

His introduction hooked me... > A young man would hardly be persuaded to sacrifice the greater part of his thoughts to save the rest; and the muddled head is the least apt to see the necessity of such a sacrifice. Him we can usually only commiserate, as a person with a congenital defect. Time will help him, but intellectual maturity with regard to clearness is apt to come rather late. This seems an unfortunate arrangement of Nature, inasmuch as clearness is of less use to a man settled in life, whose errors have in great measure had their effect, than it would be to one whose path lay before him. ...but 18 pages later, I'm still unclear on how to make my ideas clear.