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ARGUMENT OF DRAMA.
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No reason for abandoning Euclid's sequence and numeration
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Nor for regarding this Manual as anything but a revised Euclid
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Summing-up
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ACT IV.

[Minos and Euclid.]


Manual of Euclid.


§ 1. Treatment of Pairs of Lines.


Modern treatment of Parallels
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Playfair's Axiom
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Test for meeting of finite Lines
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§ 2. Euclid's constructions.


'Arbitrary restrictions'
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'Exclusion of hypothetical constructions'
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