Arithmetic in Public Education (Chicago), p. 18.
[458]. In destroying the predisposition to anger, science of all kind is useful; but the mathematics possess this property in the most eminent degree.—Dr. Rush.
Quoted in Day’s Collacon (London, no date).
[459]. The mathematics are the friends to religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. Vice is error, confusion and false reasoning; and all truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, mathematical truth may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices; the delightfulness of them being such as to make solitude not only easy but desirable.—Arbuthnot, John.
Usefulness of Mathematical Learning.
[460]. There is no prophet which preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics.—Carus, Paul.
Reflections on Magic Squares; Monist (1906), p. 147.
[461]. Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience is due all that is certain in physics.—Voltaire.
Oeuvres Complètes (Paris, 1880), t. 35, p. 219.