Oct 19, 2023
We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of
Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and
cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great
thing to be brought into the presence of a law, of a whole system
of laws, that exist without our concurrence,––that...
Oct 5, 2023
Again, we have made a rather strange discovery, that the mind
refuses to know anything except what reaches it in more or less
literary form.
Persons can ‘get up’ the driest of pulverised text-books and enough
mathematics for some public examination; but these attainments do
not appear to touch the region of...