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“I foresaw and feared, and
so shrank from touching on the law concerning the getting and breeding of
women and children.” “It does not seem an easy thing, by
heaven,” he said, “no, by heaven.”
“No, it is not,” said I; “but the fact is that
whether one tumbles into a little diving-pool or plump into the great sea he
swims all the same.” “By all means.”
“Then we, too, must swim and try to escape out of the sea1 of
argument in the hope that either some dolphin2
will take us on its back or some other desperate rescue.”
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