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Updated: May 13, 2025
To Gentiles like ourselves, a good deal of the Epistle to the Romans is now tedious to unreadableness because it consists of a hopeless attempt by Paul to evade the conclusion that if a man were baptized it did not matter a rap whether he was circumcized or not.
There is a large class of men madly desirous to read cuneiform and runic inscriptions simply because of their unreadableness, adding to our compulsory stock of knowledge about the royal Smiths and Joneses of to-day much conjectural and conflicting information concerning their royal prototypes of an antiquity unknown, and, as we fondly hoped, unknowable.
Generally speaking, I neither understand old books very well, nor do I care for them I have been able to read only Shakespeare, and perhaps one or two others, with the interest with which I approach modern writers. It has sometimes seemed to me that the unreadableness of the older authors might be made the foundation of a philosophic system. Yet I have met with some surprises.
Barbauld in her Life of Richardson 'under the name of Miss M., afterwards Lady G." Klopstock himself is rather remembered for what he was than what he is, an immortality of unreadableness; and we much doubt if many Germans put the "Oberon" in their trunks when they start on a journey.
Of a very different character is the next work to be noticed, as one of enduring interest on the Deistical controversy. Bishop Berkeley's 'Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, is one of the few exceptions to the general dreariness and unreadableness of controversial writings in the dialogistic form.
When he was ushered in, Cowperwood turned to him his keen, analytical eyes and saw at once a personality he liked. McKibben was just remote and artistic enough to suit him. He liked his clothes, his agnostic unreadableness, his social air. McKibben, on his part, caught the significance of the superior financial atmosphere at once.
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