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the exterior world but within himself, in his own nature, in his
own human existence.” The easy habit of configuration which
had lasted through several centuries yields with the
Renaissance to continuous, lineal, and uniform sequences for
time and space and personal relationships alike. And the
analogous world of roles and ratios is suddenly succeeded by a
new lineal world, as in Troilus and Cressida (III, iii):
Take the instant way;
For honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path,
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue. If you give way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Like to an ent’red tide, they all rush by,
And leave you hindmost;