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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.

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.

When I Became Thoroughly Acquainted With The Greek And Roman Authors, I Thought It Incumbent Upon Me To Do Something Towards The Honor Of The Place Of My Nativity, And To Vindicate The Rhetoric Of This Ancient Forum Of Our Metropolis From The Aspersions Of The Illiterate By Composing A Treatise Of The Alercation Of The Ancients; Wherein I Have Demonstrated That The Purity, Sincerity, And Simplicity Of Their Diction Is Nowhere So Well Preserved As Amongst My Neighbourhood.

The First Care In Building Of Cities, Is To Make Them Airy And Well Perflated; Infectious Distempers Must Necessarily Be Propagated Amongst Mankind Living Close Together.

The Mathematics Are Friends To Religion, Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of The Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice. Vice Is Error, Confusion, And False Reasoning; And All Truth Is More Or Less Opposite To It. Besides, Mathematical Studies May Serve For A Pleasant Entertainment For Those Hours Which Young Men Are Apt To Throw Away Upon Their Vices; The Delightfulness Of Them Being Such As To Make Solitude Not Only Easy, But Desirable.