...must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen how an excessive study of the mathematical...abstraction and generalization — and for common reasoning ; and disposed to the alternative of blind credulity or irrational scepticism. That mathematics, in...

...rare danger! It is affirmed merely of the " EXCESSIVE stud}- of the mathematical sciences," that it " not only does not prepare, but absolutely incapacitates...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require ;" and it is by this " EXCESSIVE study" alone that " we are disqualified for observation," and so forth,...

...must be sought for, collected, «nd applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical sciences not only docs not prepare, hut absolutely incapacitates the mind, for those intellectual energies which philosophy...

...must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical...abstraction and generalization — and for common reasoning; nay disposed to the alternative of blind credulity or of irrational skepticism. That mathematies, in...

...must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical...abstraction and generalization — and for common reasoning ; nay disposed to the alternative of blind credulity or of irrational skepticism. That mathematics,...

...of authorities pro and con. : the writer's conclusion being, that an excessive study of mathematics not only does not prepare, but absolutely incapacitates...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require — disqualifying us for observation, either internal or external, for abstraction and generalisation,...

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...must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical...abstraction and generalization — and for common reasoning ; nay disposed to the alternative of blind credulity or of irrational skepticism. That mathematics,...

...and faith have been carried into other departments of thought Again, Hamilton says : " It will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require." But is it not evident that the disqualification arises, not from a knowledge of mathematics, but from...

...against the use of Mathematics as a discipline for the mind is summed up in the following sentence. "We are thus disqualified for observation, either...or external, for abstraction, and generalization, for common reasoning, nay, disposed to the alternative of blind credulity or of irrational skepticism."...