"Such questions, thus too often rejected by the mathematician as metaphysical, are on the other hand discarded by the metaphysician as mathematical: so that, disowned by both, they fall to the ground without any satisfactory discussion at all."

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Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., &c. On the Theory of Ratio and Proportion as treated by Euclid including an Inquiry into the Nature or Quantity, read to the Ashmolean Society (Feb. 5, 1836)