then why not link it?

Gross.

I speak now not in malice, but in earnest despair, for the conclusion you have drawn is of such astonishing simplicity that it grieves me more than I can readily convey; and yet I'm moved less to anger than to sorrow, so profoundly indeed that I find myself unable to discern whether your words arose form haste, from a species of naivety, or from a mind altogether too content with its first and poorest notion.

Could've been perfect if not for the typo. So close.