Observing that nature dealt in duplicates, we pursued the hint, as the leading idea--" "In duplicates, commodore!" "Certainly, Sir John--a monikin has two eyes two ears, two nostrils, two lungs, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet, and so on to the end of the chapter.

On this hint, we ordered that there should be drawn, morally, in every district of Leaplow, two distinct and separate lines, that should run at right angles to each other.

These were termed the 'political landmarks' of the country; and it was expected that every citizen should range himself along one or the other.

All this you will understand, however, was a moral contrivance, not a physical one." "Is the obligation of this moral contrivance imperative ?" "Not legally, it is true; but then, he who does not respect it is like one who is out of fashion, and he is so generally esteemed a poor devil, that the usage has a good deal more than the force of a law.

At first, it was intended to make it a part of the constitution; but one of our most experienced statesmen so clearly demonstrated that, by so doing, we should not only weaken the nature of the obligation, but most probably raise a party against it, that the idea was abandoned.