Master. - Wherefore in all great works are clerks so much desired? Wherefore are auditors so richly fed? What causeth geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, Which else would far excel man's mind.

In: R.H. Carothers, A Chapter On Figures, The Lafayette Monthly, Volume V, September, 1874 (p. 132)