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is grounded.
For these reasons it is desirable at once to examine the nature of the mathematician's procedure pretty throughly.
I have reason to be confident that this study will be of aid to some of those who have no natural turn for mathematics.
At the same time I am bound to say that mathematics requires a certain vigor of thought the power of concentration of attention so as to hold before the mind in a highly complex image and keeps it steady enough to be observed and though training can do wonders in a short time in enhancing this vigor still it will not make a powerfil thinker out of a naturally feeble mind or one that has been utterly debilitated by intellectual sloth.

There is another normative science which has a vital connection with logic which has been