Although they are still retained in the text by some editors, this is done to give some measure of continuity to an otherwise interrupted narrative, but they can only serve to distort the author and obscure whatever view of him the reader might otherwise have reached.

They are generally printed between brackets or in different type.
In 1768 another and far abler forger saw the light of day.

Jose Marchena, a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, was destined for an ecclesiastical career.

He received an excellent education which served to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism.

In his early youth he showed a marked preference for uncanonical pursuits and heretical doctrines and before he had reached his thirtieth year prudence counseled him to prevent the consequences of his heresy and avoid the too pressing Inquisition by a timely flight into France.
He arrived there in time to throw himself into the fight for liberty, and in 1800 we find him at Basle attached to the staff of General Moreau.
While there he is said to have amused himself and some of his cronies by writing notes on what Davenport would have called "Forbidden Subjects," and, as a means of publishing his erotic lucubrations, he constructed this fragment, which brings in those topics on which he had enlarged.
He translated the fragment into French, attached his notes, and issued the book.