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Excerpt from Mathematical Microbes: A Paper Read for the Club (Literary) Of Springfield, February 11th, 1898
Now, common sense may be truer even than mathe maties, and when combined with the genius chance, may accomplish what mathematics cannot in its own proper field; that is, eradicate error and establish truth. Let it be understood that you owe this paper to chance, and that the preceding wise remarks are merely to pave the way for a statement of how it hap pened, and what followed. As a student I accepted my mathematics as I accepted my religious faith - both, as presented to me by books and teachers, accorded With my discernment of truth. I no more thought of questioning one than the other and in this desirable frame of mind, so far as mathematics is concerned, I continued until quite recently.
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