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15 Apr 1815 Chrest Tab II 28

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1 Geometry
Points Verbal
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Practicability of
this mode of designation
proved by
two experiments
viz on Euclid's
Elements, and the
Conic Sections: viz
Hamiton's.

Without the aid of any diagram, any such
intelligible description can it thenbe given, in such a manner as to be intelligible.- From the his
own experience, - from an experiments made at his
suggestion, in the instance of three persons, at two
widely distinct points of time,- the writer of these pages
is enabled to answer in the affirmative. In the instance
of two of them, the experiment began with Euclid's Elements,
and went no further than the six first books. 8
In both, age-self directing
Object, self- satisfaction, not satisfaction
of an Instructive
Master or Guardian,
was fully accomplished.
This a proof
of really experienced
advantage.
In the instance of the thirdother human person, it began with one
of the most copious and at that timebest approved institutional
works on Conic Sections, and was continued, in the [+] (Hamilton's as far
as recollection serves)
end.of the not, to the very end, In both instances the papers, in which the
descriptions in question are contained are in his
possession, though at the moment not accessible. In the last instance all three instances
the learners are of the a self-directing age: what was
done was done purely for the satisfaction as well as
instruction of the operators themselves, and not in
the way of exercise for the satisfaction of a teacher: for,
except the learners themselves, in neitherno one of the three
three instances was there any teacher in the case.
In the case of the Conic Sections, though he himself
readneither did at that time read, nor since then has ever read so counts as a page of what was
done written, yet so it was that the whole of it was
written in his presence: and well does he remember the
perfecttaking of self-satisfaction - and as promptitude
and as alacrity, with which the performance of the self imposed task
continued as it was during a course of some,
months, was accompanied: symptoms, what for such
a length of time, nothing but the full sense of continual success
could be assuredly have produced.

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Identifier: | JB/018/010/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-04-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	010	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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