Projective Geometry Is All Geometry.

But Be That As It May, I Think It Is More Respectful To You That I Should Speak To You Upon And Do My Best To Interest You In The Subject Which Has Occupied Me, And In Which I Am Myself Most Interested.

Euclid Avoids It [the Treatment Of The Infinite]; In Modern Mathematics It Is Systematically Introduced, For Only Then Is Generality Obtained.

Metrical Geometry Is Thus A Part Of Descriptive Geometry, And Descriptive Geometry Is All Geometry.

So Much The Worse, It May Be, For A Particular Meeting: But The Meeting Is The Individual, Which On Evolution Principles, Must Be Sacrificed For The Development Of The Race.

And In Another Point Of View, I Think It Is Right That The Address Of A President Should Be On His Own Subject, And That Different Subjects Should Be Thus Brought In Turn Before The Meetings.