it's old-fashioned, for sure. and therefore less clear to a modern reader. but it's not that far from the kind of "turgid" prose you find even today in some ac

it's old-fashioned, for sure. and therefore less clear to a modern reader. but it's not that far from the kind of "turgid" prose you find even today in some academic fields (where being difficult to read is desired because a reader may conflate syntactic difficulty with conceptual challenge). it does come off as performative and thus annoying.