It quickly became evident that the search for native literature became a national obsession. ... "it is my design", he wrote, "to make those who can scarcely read understand," to put arguments in a language "as plain as the alphabet," and to shape everything "to fit the powers of thinking and turn of language to the subject, so as to bring out a clear conclusion that shall hit the point in question and nothing else." ...

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