[1599]. All historic science tends to become mathematical. Mathematical power is classifying power.—Novalis.
Schriften (Berlin, 1901), Teil 2, p. 192.
[1599a]. History has never regarded itself as a science of statistics. It was the Science of Vital Energy in relation with time; and of late this radiating centre of its life has been steadily tending,—together with every form of physical and mechanical energy,—toward mathematical expression.—Adam, Henry.
A Letter to American Teachers of History (Washington, 1910), p. 115.
[1599b]. Mathematics can be shown to sustain a certain relation to rhetoric and may aid in determining its laws.—Sherman L. A.
University [of Nebraska] Studies, Vol. 1, p. 130.