Book 5 — CHAPTER XXV
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’Tis a point settled,—and I mention it for the comfort of Confucius,2 who is apt to get entangled in telling a plain story—that provided he keeps along the line of his story,—he may go backwards and forwards as he will,—’tis still held to be no digression.
This being premised, I take the benefit of the act of going backwards myself.