"This, indeed, is what I believe of him (he speaks of himself): -- "No average attitude; being always driven from one extreme to the other by indivinable chances; no manner of course without cross-runnings and marvellous controversies; no clear and plain faculty, so that the likeliest idea that could one day be put forth about him will be this: that he affected and laboured to make himself known by the impossibility of really knowing him" ( 'qu'il affectoit et estudioit de se rendre cogneu par estre mecognoissable'). '"