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16 April 1815
Chrest. Tab.II 18 Particular Branches
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1 Geometry
1. Purely Verbal
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Able to give the
general description
the Teachers should
give it: unable
how can he expect
the learner to be
able to give it?
i.e. to understand
the proposition

Abridge this paragraph?

A question here presents itself as one which, by any
Take any book of instruction and particular
learner in geometry, might not unaptly be put to the
The direction and meanings only of what
author of any institutional work, by means of which he were occupied
in making himself. The directions and reasonings, the only use of which
is to convey so many general ideas why is it that
3 ? ? for giving expression to them, the Instructor you have not (, <add>which</add> in the case
of the instructionof the enuntiation made of the proposition to be demonstrated, you actually have employed the correspondent
general words? you why and how In to find these
general words ? These general words, did you know <add>which are</add> how to find you have them? then why is it that theyou have not
? found them, and produced them? - With all its load last of the with allowed of
of unavoidable and irremoveable deficiently, is not the task
heavy enough for us? ? Must that
additional, difficulty thus removable difficulty added
left pressing on us it? — The Instructor is not These same
be not able to find Stock? with
general and only adequate words, it is then that you were

have not been able to find them? You, to whom, by so many
years of study and burthen continually repeated applications to practice, the subject has been
rendered so perfectly
as that
familiar
expect
with what degree of consistency can you entertain any such
of study the
of be whatever
expectation, as thatto all of whom we, the subject is perfectly new, and many of whom
of the
are for various degrees, dull or maltiative, or both, should be
of the
able to accomplish, at the moment, and at every moment, what
a work, which our Master has not been able to perform
in so many years?

—

A difference so universal ask why it has
taken place if of the wordquestion why the object be understood
to be the asking for a good and sufficient reason, as
answer will so be foundwill now be found for it capable of receivingreceiving. Ask
whence it has happened to have taken place if of the word
whencequestion then put the object to be understood to be to call for the
instantly productive cause or causes the answer will
not be difficult full<add></add>to such to be told. Authority and custom: the authority
of great names celebrated men - and custom , as usual, taking
the practice of such great men for the standard of
perfection. In the case of general expression of the
correspondent general relation. Euclid - the great Euclid
father of Geometry - went not beyond the form of words
of the term propositive. Can there be any need of doing or so much as use uses in
doing what the father
of the same line doing? thought fit to do?

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Date_1	1815-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	20
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	017	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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