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Of The Many Forms Of False Culture, A Premature Converse With Abstractions Is Perhaps The Most Likely To Prove Fatal To The Growth Of A Masculine Vigour Of Intellect.

No Matter How Correct A Mathematical Theorem May Appear To Be, One Ought Never To Be Satisfied That There Was Not Something Imperfect About It Until It Also Gives The Impression Of Being Beautiful.

I Am Now About To Set Seriously To Work Upon Preparing For The Press An Account Of My Theory Of Logic And Probabilities Which In Its Present State I Look Upon As The Most Valuable If Not The Only Valuable Contribution That I Have Made Or Am Likely To Make To Science And The Thing By Which I Would Desire If At All To Be Remembered Hereafter.

I Am Fully Assured, That No General Method For The Solution Of Questions In The Theory Of Probabilities Can Be Established Which Does Not Explicitly Recognize, Not Only The Special Numerical Bases Of The Science, But Also Those Universal Laws Of Thought Which Are The Basis Of All Reasoning, And Which, Whatever They May Be As To Their Essence, Are At Least Mathematical As To Their Form.

The General Laws Of Nature Are Not, For The Most Part, Immediate Objects Of Perception.