Feel, Touch, Come Into Contact, I Replied.

"I asked with the view of irritating the monarch and I succeeded perfectly. What cried he in horror? Explain your meaning. Feel. Come into contact, I replied." If you mean by feeling, said the king, approaching so close as to leave no space between two individuals, no stranger, that this offense is punishable in my dominions by death,. The frail form of a woman, being liable to be shattered by such an approximation, must be preserved by the state. But since women cannot be distinguished by the sense of sight from men, the law ordains universally, that neither man nor woman shall be approached so closely as to destroy the interval between the approximator and the approximated