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As Is Well Known The Principle Of Virtual Velocities Transforms All Statics Into A Mathematical Assignment, And By D'alembert's Principle For Dynamics, The Latter Is Again Reduced To Statics. Although It Is Is Very Much In Order That In Gradual Training Of Science And In The Instruction Of The Individual The Easier Precedes The More Difficult, The Simple Precedes The More Complicated, The Special Precedes The General, Yet The Min, Once It Has Arrived At The Higher Standpoint, Demands The Reverse Process Whereby All Statics Appears Only As A Very Special Case Of Mechanics.

Less Depends Upon The Choice Of Words Than Upon This, That Their Introduction Shall Be Justified By Pregnant Theorems.

A Great Part Of Its Theories Derives An Additional Charm From The Peculiarity That Important Propositions, With The Impress Of Simplicity On Them, Are Often Easily Discovered By Induction, And Yet Are Of So Profound A Character That We Cannot Find The Demonstrations Till After Many Vain Attempts; And Even Then, When We Do Succeed, It Is Often By Some Tedious And Artificial Process, While The Simple Methods May Long Remain Concealed.

Mathematical Discoveries, Like Springtime Violets In The Woods, Have Their Season Which No Human Can Hasten Or Retard.

To Praise It Would Amount To Praising Myself. For The Entire Content Of The Work... Coincides Almost Exactly With My Own Meditations Which Have Occupied My Mind For The Past Thirty Or Thirty-five Years.