OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



pointed out by our authors in an article on "Energy" in Good 1 1".. /</.*, 

 October 1862. 



Our limits forbid us from following the authors as they carry the student 

 through the theories of varying action, kinetic force, electric images, and elastic 

 solids. We can only express our sympathy with the efforts of men, thoroughly 

 conversant with all that mathematicians have achieved, to divest scientific truths 

 of that symbolic language in which the mathematicians have left them, and to 

 clothe them in words, developed by legitimate methods from our mother tongue, 

 but rendered precise by clear definitions, and familiar by well-rounded statements. 

 Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which 

 mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort 

 to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and 

 if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, 

 hut, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during 

 the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in 

 symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds. 



