Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 3
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The Law of the Circles
I neither see my way logically to reject, nor practically to accept his conclusions. I find it best to assume that a good sound scolding or castigation has some latent and strengthening influence on my grandsons' configuration. By honor, however, is by no means meant indulgence, but a reverent regard for their highest interests. The weak point in the system of the circles, if a humble square may venture to speak of anything circular, as containing any element of weakness, appears to me to be found in their relations with women.
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