306 Newton'.- Principia. 



ablTto systematize when every valuable portion of this world-wide lit- 

 erature has been made accessible to every toiler in this field of work. 



If we cannot hope for an immediate unity of language, we can, at 

 least, insist upon the adoption of simple methods of arrangement of 



every detail necessary to an understanding of the facts described. 



There are no occult sciences; and obscure, defective and careless 

 descriptions of physical phenomena are inexcusable violations of those 

 elementary rules of human communication that are essential to method 



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meaning and unquestioned value. 



first problem of the age. 



broad philosophy, lie seemed instinctivel\ to seek for traces of cor- 

 relation in all similar phenomena. He was a systematize*, but not 

 satisfied with any superficial appearance of harmonious arrangement. 



problems within numerical and geometrical limits, and classified them 

 and learned their properties from their proved relationships. 



The application of mathematical system to every branch of human 



knowledge. Without such perfection and symmetry, knowledge is 

 chaotic, without sequence or connection, toilsome to the memory and 



Prof. Huxley, now the President of that Royal Society to which 

 Xewton transmitted his great work, recently said in his annual addn 



the case of Tarpeia * * * crushed under the weight of the reward 



