Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; & they are the life, the soul of reading; take them out of this book for instance, you might as well take the book along with them.
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Even good arguments fail, if they are spiced with Digressions .
Even good arguments fail, if they are spiced with Digressions.
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there was an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man a man of restless and versatile intellect who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them with aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent Digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there was an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man a man of restless and versatile intellect who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them with aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent Digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
thomas henry huxley