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• Work: Joseph Rickaby, S.J., Four-Square; or, The Cardinal Virtues: Addresses to Young Men (1908).
• Primary source: the complete University of Toronto/Internet Archive image scan, locally preserved as rickaby-four-square-1908-toronto.pdf.
• Collateral source: the independent Library of Congress/Internet Archive image scan of the same 1908 setting.
• Transcription policy: every authorial English word is preserved without summarizing, paraphrasing, omission, or free modernization. Words divided solely by a printed line or page ending are rejoined. Printed page boundaries are recorded with hidden HTML comments.
• Translation policy: substantive connected Latin or Greek prose is replaced by complete literal scholarly English translation and preserved verbatim in the separate language-source ledger. Titles, citations, abbreviations, formulas, maxims, and technical terms remain in their source language.
• Excluded matter: ecclesiastical permissions, publisher copyright notice, library marks, catalogue records, and blank leaves are excluded as non-authorial edition matter.
• Status: transcription complete through printed page 93. The separate Latin-and-Greek audit, page-by-page English collation, and structural audit have all passed; this volume is declared complete.

FOUR-SQUARE

OR

THE CARDINAL VIRTUES

ADDRESSES TO YOUNG MEN, BY

JOSEPH RICKABY, S. J.

“That tower of strength
That stood four-square to all the winds that blew.”
—TENNYSON.

JOSEPH F. WAGNER
NEW YORK
1908