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UPRIGHT OR SLOPING WRITING—WHICH?
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the sloping lines are nearer to each other than the vertical strokes is nevertheless true, but this nearness is caused not by the base points being nearer together but from the geometrical principles
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that govern all parallel right lines drawn vertically and obliquely to any horizontal from points equi-distant from each other, all lines approaching more nearly to one another as the slope increases until coincidence is reached at 90° from the upright. Since
