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It may appear to some people that Hamilton was taking a prodigious amount of trouble to reach by a roundabout way a conclusion at least as presumptively attainable by direct means as by sinuous; and, in this connection, Montrose's quatrain may possibly occur to them --
He either fears his fate too much, / Or his desert is small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To gain or lose it all.