"A liberal Education ought to include both Permanent Studies which connect men with the culture of past generations, and Progressive Studies which make them feel their community with the present generation, its businesses, interests and prospects. ...When the Student is once well disciplined in geometrical mathematics, he may pursue analysis safely and surely to any extent. But though modern mathematics may thus be very fitly studied as a sequel to the older forms of mathematical science... these modern methods cannot supply the place of the ancient subjects as the Permanent Studies in our Educational course."
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