An introduction to mathematics, by A. N. Whitehead.

METHODS OF APPLICATION 41 his forefathers. The Romans were a great race, but they were cursed with the sterility which waits upon practicality. They did not improve upon the knowledge of their forefathers, and all their advances were confined to the minor technical details of engineering. They were not dreamers enough to arrive at new points of view, which could give a more fundamental control over the forces of nature. No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.

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An introduction to mathematics, by A. N. Whitehead.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
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