Must Acknowledge, That To Act Properly Is

Must Acknowledge, That To Act Properly Is Much More Valuable Than To Think Justly Or Reason Acutely.

It Is The Invaluable Merit Of The Great Basle Mathematician Leonard Euler, To Have Freed The Analytical Calculus From All Geometric Bounds, And Thus To Have Established Analysis As An Independent Science, Which From His Time On Has Maintained An Unchallenged Leadership In The Field Of Mathematics.

For The Perception Of The Beautiful We Have The Term "taste"--a Metaphor Taken From That Which Is Passive In The Body And Transferred To That Which Is Active In The Mind.

Every Man Feels That Perception Gives Him An Invincible Belief Of The Existence Of That Which He Perceives; And That This Belief Is Not The Effect Of Reasoning, But The Immediate Consequence Of Perception. When Philosophers Have Wearied Themselves And Their Readers With Their Speculations Upon This Subject, They Can Neither Strengthen This Belief, Nor Weaken It; Nor Can They Shew How It Is Produced. It Puts The Philosopher And The Peasant Upon A Level; And Neither Of Them Can Give Any Other Reason For Believing His Senses, Than That He Finds It Impossible For Him To Do Otherwise.

The Wisdom Of God Exceeds That Of The Wisest Man, More Than His Wisdom Exceeds That Of A Child. If A Child Were To Conjecture How An Army Is To Be Formed In The Day Of Battle--how A City Is To Be Fortified, Or A State Governed--what Chance Has He To Guess Right? As Little Chance Has The Wisest Man When He Pretends To Conjecture How The Planets Move In Their Courses, How The Sea Ebbs And Flows, And How Our Minds Act Upon Our Bodies.