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And yet, in the vagueness of his mind, he had never imaginatively realised that a house was made with hands, and hands that could err. With its exact perpendiculars and horizontals, its geometric regularities, and its Chinese preciseness of fitting, a house had always seemed to him again in the vagueness of his mind as something superhuman.
When this measure of comparison is established in hard metal, how carefully it must be preserved to ensure that the oscillations of temperature shall not modify the length even in the most infinitesimal degree; for this would be fatal to the scientific use of the instrument in measuring horizontals. And yet how slight a thing in itself is involved! the preservation of a measure!
"How, sir, do all the members take the manoeuvres from this fugleman?" "All the Horizontals, sir the Perpendiculars having a fugleman of their own." "Well, gentlemen, I conceive this to be an affair in which I am no judge, and I put myself entirely in the hands of my friends."
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