Excerpt from Geometry in Modern Life: Being the Substance of Two Lectures on Useful Geometry, Given Before the Literary Society at EtonCombined that each shall aid and not impede the other. The order, number, and measure which per vade the universe can be easily brought within the scope of elementary education, and so form the fit preparation for scientific Observation and experiment in later life, by means of which -the standards of application of abstract truths to matter and events in human life are determined and made familiar. But the one learning cannot be too soon begun, nor the other too long continued, and each is a material aid to the other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.