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Neither one nor the other

In wanting both, you risk holding neither equality nor the bond.

Objects to Concentric circles

1. The position of the circles looks wise, but it may be merely unstable: either equality truly commands, and your partiality is only a tolerated weakness.
2. Or it is the bond that commands, and the "impartial foundation" is only a convenient dressing for your preference for your own.
3. In between, one leans now on one, now on the other, as it suits: which may be leaning on nothing at all.

Therefore The middle way might therefore be only a polite name for a hesitation between two theses that are, themselves, clear.