Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — Good-Bye, Euclid. [ARTICLE]

Good-Bye, Euclid.

Within the last few years a revolution has been accomplished at Oxford which ought really to affect the mind of the nation more than the difference between Lord Curzon and Lord Rosebery. A text-book has been discarded which was already venerable for Its antiquity at the beginning of tbe Christian era. heedless to say, we are referring to Euclid’s “Elements.” For what other text-book ever had such a run as that? It haa been accepted ever since Its publication, which was In the reign of-the first Ptolemy (B. G. 323285). No writer hns ever become so Identified with a science ns Euclid with geometry. The nearest approaches ar« to he found lu the relation of Aristotle to logic and of Adam ( Smith to political economy.—London Spectator. It’s very, very easy to be foolish. Better watch out