as it may cost a strong man less effort to carry a hundred-weight
from place to place at once, than by a stone at a time; so, to an
active mind it may be easier to bear along all the qualifications
of an idea and at once rightly form it when named, than to first
imperfectly conceive such idea and then carry back to it, one
by one, the details and limitations afterwards mentioned. While
conversely, as for a boy, the only possible mode of transferring
a hundred-weight, is that of taking it in portions; so, for a weak
mind, the only possible mode of forming a compound conception may
be that of building it up by carrying separately its several parts.

29. That the indirect method--the method of conveying
the meaning by a series of approximations--is best fitted for the
uncultivated, may indeed be inferred from their habitual use of
it. The form of expression adopted by the savage, as in "Water,
give me," is the simplest type of the approximate arrangement. In
pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated,
the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in--"The
men, they were there." Again, the old possessive case --"The king,
his crown," conforms to the like order of thought. Moreover, the
fact that the indirect mode is called the natural one, implies that
it is the one spontaneously employed by the common people: that
is--the one easiest for undisciplined minds.

30. There are many cases, however, in which neither the direct
nor the indirect structure is the best; but where an intermediate
structure is preferable to both. When the number of circumstances and
qualifications to be included in the sentence is great, the most
judicious course is neither to enumerate them all before introducing
the idea to which they belong, nor to put this idea first and let