PREFACE 
ix 
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Similarly 
■don with 
ipparchus, 
• 
war, the hideous course of which seemed day by day to 
enforce the profound truth conveyed in the answer of Plato 
to the Delians. When they consulted him on the problem set 
them by the Oracle, namely that of duplicating the cube, he 
replied, ‘ It must be supposed, not that the god specially 
wished this problem solved, but that he would have the 
Greeks desist from war and wickedness and cultivate the 
Muses, so that, their passions being assuaged by philosophy 
and mathematics, they might live in innocent and mutually 
of Euclid 
Cuclid, the 
almost all 
y. Archi- 
which are 
style, was 
liable and 
n must be 
hole if we 
diich they 
science. 
:es (as does 
repetition 
necessary 
helpful intercourse with one another ’. 
Truly 
Greece and her foundations are 
Built below the tide of war, 
Based on the crystalline sea 
Of thought and its eternity. 
T. L. H. 
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ations. 
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ears of the