excursus

This has been a long excursus, and we must get back to our jaunt on the plain.

But such a retort involves just the dialectic excursus which I am here anxious to avoid.

But the account suggests another and independent question with respect to which I shall make an excursus.

This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.

But call it a note or 'excursus,' which is the scholarlike name for notes a little longer than usual, and all will be made right.