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while the other remains the Second, it is that the
Secondness is more accidental to the former than
to the latter; that there is more or less approach
to a state of things in which something, which is
itself First, accidentally comes into a
Secondness that does not really modify its
Firstness, while its Second in this Secondness
is something whose being is of the nature of
Secondness and which has no Firstness
separate from this. It must be extremely difficult
for those who are untrained to such analyses of conceptions
to make any sense of all this. For that
reason, I shall inflict very little of it upon you,—
just enough to show those who can carry what
I say in their minds that it is by no means nonsense.

while the other remains the Second, it is that the
Secondness is more accidental to the former than
to the latter; that there is more or less approach
to a state of things in which something, which is
itself First, accidentally comes into a
Secondness that does not really modify its
Firstness, while its Second in this Secondness
is something whose being is of the nature of
Secondness and which has no Firstness
separate from this. It must be extremely difficult
for those who are untrained to such analyses of conceptions
to make any sense of all this. For that
reason, I shall inflict very little of it upon you,—
just enough to show those who can carry what
I say in their minds that it is by no means nonsense.