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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which

grinds your stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you

get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in tne

world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae

will not get a definite result out of loose data.

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