James Joseph Sylvester Quote

Would it sound too presumptuous to speak of perception as a quintessence of sensation, language (that is, communicable thought) [as that] of perception, mathematics [as that] of language? We should then have four terms differentiating from inorganic matter and from each other: the Vegetable, Animal, Rational, and Supersensual models of existence.


The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (Volume, 2), Presidential Address to the British Association (p. 652)


Would it sound too presumptuous to speak of perception as a quintessence of sensation, language (that is, communicable thought) [as that] of...

Would it sound too presumptuous to speak of perception as a quintessence of sensation, language (that is, communicable thought) [as that] of...

Would it sound too presumptuous to speak of perception as a quintessence of sensation, language (that is, communicable thought) [as that] of...

Would it sound too presumptuous to speak of perception as a quintessence of sensation, language (that is, communicable thought) [as that] of...