superficialty

Updated: May 23, 2025

Nature had, with incorrigible perversity, cut him out for a life of ease, whilst endowing him with a character capable of very great things. Now, in her waywardness she had aroused that character and overthrown the hindering superficialty in which she had clothed it.

Ridgwell Cullum - The Story of the Foss River Ranch : A Tale of the Northwest