He has, therefore, requested me to reply in his behalf to two special objections, one of an intellectual, the other of a moral nature. This objection is plausible, and, to Spacelanders, almost irresistible, so that, I confess, when I first heard it, I knew not what to reply. But my poor old friend's answer appears to me completely to meet it. But we can no more take cognizance of our 'height' than you can of your 'extra-height'. The reason is obvious.
Dimension implies direction, implies measurement, implies the more and the less.
I tried to prove to him that he was 'high', as well as long and broad, although he did not know it. Then put yourself in a similar position. On this point the defence of the Square seems to me to be impregnable. But the Square is so unaccustomed to the use of the moral terminology of Spaceland that I should be doing him an injustice if I were literally to transcribe his defence against this charge. Acting, therefore, as his interpreter and summarizer, I gather that in the course of an imprisonment of seven years he has himself modified his own personal views, both as regards Women and as regards the Isosceles or Lower Classes.