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Euclid's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the progress of man from a worse to a better state. The encouragement; for it contained a body of knowledge that was really known and could be relied on, and that moreover was growing in extent and application. For even at the time this book was written—shortly after the foundation of the Alexandrian Museum—Mathematics was no longer the merely ideal science of
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― Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
― Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
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We don't agree and we never shall, so we'll be good friends all our lives, but we won't go and do anything rash.
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― Little Women
― Little Women
