The mathematics, and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta’en:—
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
—Shakespeare.
Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, Scene 1.
[1128]. Music has much resemblance to algebra.—Novalis.
Schriften, Teil 2 (Berlin, 1901), p. 549.
I do present you with a man of mine,