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acquaintance with them to be very very simple
but which the system of graphs forces us to see
are in reality very complex; while on the
other hand, this same complication
shows that the system of existential graphs
possesses to an extraordinary degree
the virtue that belongs more or less to
all diagrams that of putting a matter a
matter really extremely complicated into
a light under which it is fully and adequately
represented and yet seems as easy and
natural as slipping off a floating log.

Now to Vol 1 p 2.