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.

[1129].

I do present you with a man of mine,