[30] Vibrio. Müller. Cuvier.
[31] Dupuis. Origine des Cultes.
[32] Herschel on the Study of Nat. Phil. Art. 28.
[33] Amici me cunctantem atque etiam reluctantem, retraxerunt, inter quos primus fuit Nicolaus Schonbergius, Cardinalis Capuanus, in omni genere literatum celebris; proximus ille vir mei amantissimus Tidemannus Gisius, episcopus Culmensis, sacrarum ut est et omnium bonarum literarum studiosissimus.—De Revolutionibus. Præf. ad Paulum III.
[34] Lib. i. cx.
[35] Pensées, Art. viii. 1.
[36] Thomson’s Hist. of Chemistry, vol. i. 321.
[37] Manch. Mem. vol. v. p. 346.
[38] “Since all reasoning may be resolved into syllogisms, and since in a syllogism the premises do virtually assert the conclusion, it follows at once, that no truth can be elicited by any process of reasoning.”—Whately’s Logic, p. 223.
Mathematics is the logic of quantity, and to this science the observation here quoted is strictly applicable.