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...rong impulsion from James, but have more interest than he had in logic and mathematics and the abstract part of philosophy. They speak of “neutral” en... ...s. It is by essentially similar processes that we learn speaking, writing, mathematics, or the govern- ment of an empire. Professor W atson (“Behavior... ...ain beliefs which do not is- sue in any proximate action, such as those of mathematics. I conclude, therefore, that there must be belief-feelings of t... ...e properties of objects, but from the meanings of symbols. Now symbols, in mathematics, mean what we choose; thus the feeling of self-evidence, in thi...

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...the sciences, not excepting that which is deemed the most certain of them, mathematics; without much im pairing, generally indeed without impairing a...

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...ion to infinity, do we reach a solution of the problem. A modern branch of mathematics having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small ca... ...problems of motion which used to ap- pear insoluble. This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the an- 4 War and Peace – Book Eleven cients, when...

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...es have traveled along that path. Arriving at 107 Tolstoy infinitesimals, mathematics, the most exact of sciences, aban- dons the process of analysis... ...known, infinitely small, quantities. Aban- doning the conception of cause, mathematics seeks law, that is, the property common to all unknown, infinit...

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...as that of the Meno, and is derived from the latent knowl 6 Phaedo edge of mathematics, which may be elicited from an un learned person when a diag... ...ous races (compare Polit.); or the mysterious reference to another science (mathematics?) of generation and destruction for which he is vainly feelin...

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...to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhet... ... the head; and the like. So if a man’s wit be wander ing, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so li...

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...ng his memoirs, solving prob- 102 War and Peace – Book One lems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, work- ing in the garden, or sup... ... closed the exercise book with the next day’s lesson, was about to leave: “Mathematics are most important, madam! I don’t want to have you like our si...

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...l a visible interest in us and our excursion. He was a lover of the higher mathematics, as we found, and in the midst of some vast sunny problem, when... ...ere here locked through at noon by our old friend, the lover of the higher mathematics, who seemed glad to see us safe back again through so many lock... ...r of weights and measures at least. We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a ju... ...ise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with phys ics but with ethics, that ... ...s should be mixed not only with phys ics but with ethics, that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist...

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...terature, and to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics. I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a ge... .... I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definiti... ..., speaking the language of the intellect. To it, the world is a problem in mathematics or the science of quan- tity, and it leaves out praise and blam... ...trict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe, and the Mathematics had a momen- tary importance at some era of activity in physica... ...olleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach, and ...

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... village besides Cashel. This was Mr. Wilson, Dr. Moncrief ’s professor of mathematics, who was returning from a visit to the theatre. Mr. Wilson had ... ...g at his chamber-door, outside which he pres- ently found his professor of mathematics, bruised, muddy, and apparently inebriated. Five minutes elapse... ... rumors of which had already reached Wiltstoken. Alice was unable to teach mathematics and moral science; but she formed a dancing-class, and gave les...

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... other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the sphere of mathematics, may be doubted. That Plato and the most subtle philosopher o...

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... you asked her to stand up in the street and teach grammar or geography or mathematics or even drawingroom dancing; but it never occurs to her to doub...

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...what was done in the conclave. And his good old father was so well seen in mathematics, that he could tell you, throughout Spain, every part, every po...

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...the minutest details himself. Prin- cess Mary had ceased taking lessons in mathematics from her 30 War and Peace – Book Five father, and when the old...

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...ur, and much of the old classics from French translations of them; but for mathematics, natural philosophy, or contemporary lit- erature he cared noth...

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...earson and his colleagues, I am out of my depth at the first line, because mathematics are to me only a concept: I never used a logarithm in my life, ...

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...iversality, of knowing all sciences and ex celling in all arts—chymistry, mathematics, algebra, danc ing, history, reasoning, riding, fencing, Low D... ...and well selected subjects; I find it with morning and evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian,...

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..., bred a shoemaker, but loving reading, had acquir’d a considerable share of mathematics, which he first studied with a view to astrology, that he aft... ... Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 63 little, being always absorbed in his mathematics. Mrs. Godfrey projected a match for me with a relation’s daug...

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... thoroughly, the differential calculus, and other por tions of the higher mathematics far from thoroughly: for my father, not having kept up this par... ...on, lies in the appeal which it is accus tomed to make to the evidence of mathematics and of the cognate branches of physical science. T o expel it f...

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... (hadst thou known it), in the Military School hard by there sat, studying mathematics, a dusky-complexioned taciturn Boy, under the name of: Napo- le... ...s wild way; whom telescopic Patriotism may long watch, but, without higher mathematics, will not make out. A questionable most blameable man; yet to u... ...t promoted, from Brienne School, five years ago; ‘being found qualified in mathematics by La Place.’ He is lying at Auxonne, in the West, in these mon... ...or the present, Lieutenant in the Artillery-service, who once sat studying Mathematics at Brienne? The same who walked in the morning to correct proof... ...s and our own. Romme, aided by a Monge, a Lagrange and oth- ers, furnishes mathematics; Fabre d’Eglantine furnishes poetic nomenclature: and so, on th... ... done wonders here. Tall Pichegru was meant for the Church; was Teacher of Mathematics once, in Brienne School,—his remarkablest Pupil there was the B... ...fter King’s flight, massacres at. NAPOLEON Bonaparte (Buonaparte) studying mathematics, pamphlet by, democratic, in Corsica, August Tenth, under Gen- ...