The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization to a chaos of scattered particulars, and discovers at once the general law, if there be one, which forms a connecting link between them.
The Logic and Utility of Mathematics; With the Best Methods of Instruction Explained and Illustrated, Introduction (pp. 14—15), A.S. Barnes & Burr Co. 1860