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The Reader May Here Observe The Force Of Numbers, Which Can Be Successfully Applied, Even To Those Things, Which One Would Imagine Are Subject To No Rules. There Are Very Few Things Which We Know, Which Are Not Capable Of Being Reduc'd To A Mathematical Reasoning, And When They Cannot, It's A Sign Our Knowledge Of Them Is Very Small And Confus'd; And Where A Mathematical Reasoning Can Be Had, It's As Great Folly To Make Use Of Any Other, As To Grope For A Thing In The Dark When You Have A Candle Standing By You.

Mathematical Knowledge Adds A Manly Vigour To The Mind, Frees It From Prejudice, Credulity, And Superstition.

The Mathematics Are Friends To Religion; Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice.

He That Sows His Grain Upon Marble Will Have Many A Hungry Belly Before His Harvest.

John Looked Ruddy And Plump, With A Pair Of Cheeks Like A Trumpeter.