"Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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