 Leibniz faced what might seem like an intractable problem. He thought that the ideal form for metaphysics was the esoteric mode of presentation. However, he knew that few people were inclined to read texts presented in the esoteric mode due to their daunting formal structure. Even worse, Leibniz thought that the content of his philosophy was such that most people were likely to misunderstand it in fundamental ways (see Whipple 2015a for a discussion of this problem). How then would it be possible for him to communicate his views to people? His letter to Hugony, cited earlier, suggested that it would involve a non-straightforward presentation of his views. In that text he did not elaborate on what non-straightforward presentation involved, but he did provide more concrete suggestions in some unpublished remarks appended to metaphysical notes written in 1676. The quotation is divided into several parts for ease of reference: