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exact perfect, no curve exact
perfect, no cube perfect no
solid perfectly formed of any
other regular forms no perfectly
even surface no perfectly
straight line was ever yet
formed by the hands of man,
much less by those of unassisted
Nature. But at all times
figures so little different from
the figures thus respectively
denominated have been and
will be found that in their
instances form whatsoever
deviation form matter has
had place no practical inconvenience
has been or will have
been experienced. In so far,
though no one of them is
strictly true, all such propositions
may be termed practically
true.

It is more strictly correct to
say that it is not true than
that it is not useful. In so far
as to any one who repeated it, it
became a source of amusement
even of pleasure, in so far the
Chimæra proposition was a
useful one: and just so far
would the curve proposition
be.

A proposition in mathematics
is therefore no further
mathematically true than in so
far as it is physically exemplified:
and being so exemplified is also

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	157	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::dewdney & co 1839 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1839
Notes public		ID Number	6566
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