f small, their larger neighbors ex-tinguish them by absorption. If of great extent, the cohesiveforce is too feeble to hold them together, and they fall to pieces bytheir own weight. The paltry ambition of small men disintegratesthem. The want of wisdom in their councils creates exasperatingissues.… … The Forty-seventh Proposition is older than Pythagoras. It isthis: In every right-angled triangle, the sum of the squares of thebase and perpendicular is equal to the square of the hypothenuse. THE MASTER. 87 The square of a number is the product of that number, multi-plied by itself. Thus, 4 is…
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