...us only be sure of something! More light, more light! 'Ei/ 8e $a« Kal o\4cr(Tov " And if our fate be death, give light and let us die!" This is the...votaries, than the conclusions of Pure Mathematics. — DODGSON, CL A New Theory of Parallels (London, 1895), Introduction. 303. In every case the awakening...

...rudiments, is a legitimate object for rational skepticism, like any other of the innumerable answers to "the cry that, through all the ages, is going up from perplexed humanity." For one school, at least, of mathematical analysts feels confidence in its conclusions only when the...

...'More light, more light,' " says Dodgson, author of "Alice in Wonderland," "is the cry that, throughout all the ages, is going up from perplexed humanity,...votaries, than the conclusions of pure mathematics." Mathematics has gradually evolved an ideal world, an ordered cosmos, closely matching though transcending...