Excerpt from Geometry in Modern Life: Being the Substance of Two Lectures on Useful Geometry, Given Before the Literary Society at Eton
Combined that each shall aid and not impede the other. The order, number, and measure which per vade the universe can be easily brought within the scope of elementary education, and so form the fit preparation for scientific Observation and experiment in later life, by means of which -the standards of application of abstract truths to matter and events in human life are determined and made familiar. But the one learning cannot be too soon begun, nor the other too long continued, and each is a material aid to the other.
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