558 GEOMETRY 



Cultivate therefore geometry, which has its own advantages, with- 

 out wishing, on all points, to make it equal to its rival. 



For the rest, if we were tempted to neglect it, it would soon find in 

 the applications of mathematics, as it did once before, means to rise 

 up again and develop itself anew. It is like the giant Antaeus who 

 recovered his strength in touching the earth. 



