[646] "O what a fine bearing, he said, that has no brain."
[647] Sir William Rowan Hamilton. See Vol. I, page 332, note 4 {709}.
[648] William Allen Whitworth, the author of the well-known Choice and Chance (Cambridge, 1867), and other works.
[649] James Maurice Wilson, whose Elementary Geometry appeared in 1868 and went through several editions.
[650] See Vol. II, page 183, note [315].
[651] "Force of inertia conquered," and "Victory in the whole heavens."
[652] "With all his might."
[653] George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, the idealistic philosopher and author of the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), The Analyst, or a Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), and A Defense of Freethinking in Mathematics (1735). He asserted that space involves the idea of movement without the sensation of resistance. Space sensation less than the "minima sensibilia" is, therefore, impossible. From this he argues that infinitesimals are impossible concepts.
[654] See Vol. I, page 85, note 2 {129}.
[655] See Vol. I, page 81, note 6 {120}.