APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
.Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degreoof fineness; hut nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and sis the grandest mill in the world "ill not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of tho.se data. * -X- * * The motives of the drama, ot human life is the necessity, laid upon every man wlm comes into the world, of discovering the mean between selfassertion and self-restraint suited to his character and his circumstancesAnd the eternally tragic aspect of the drama lies in this that the problem set before us is one the elements ot which ran be imperfectly known, and of which even an approximately right solution rarely presents itself, until that stern critic, aged experiece, has been furnished with ample justification for venting his sarcastic, humour upon the irreparable blunders we have already made.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1932, Page 1
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159APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1932, Page 1
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