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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
In adventuring upon a Second Presidential Address, the energy of hope and freshness which stimulated me in the former effort have vanished into trepidation of feeling. For I am unhappily conscious that I then exhausted any meagre resources I possessed of novel presentation of thought and research, and was reduced to virtual bankruptcy of serviceable suggestiveness which the interval of time has failed to annul.
page 455 note * Whewell: Novum Organou Renovatum : cap. viii.
page 456 note * Principles of Sociology: Vol. III: cap. vi.
page 457 note * Line 313.
page 459 note * White: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology: Vol. I: cap. xii.
page 460 note * Weld: History of the Royal Society: Vol. I.
page 461 note * Weld: History of the Royal Society: Vol. II.
page 462 note * Cajori: History of Mathematics: page 138.
page 462 note † Chapter on the Influences that affect the Natural Ability of Nations.
[Vide also Lecky's History of Rationalism in Europe: Vol. I: cap. iii.]
page 463 note * ἄκος; σμοσ.
page 463 note † έκὰς; δὴμος.
page 464 note * Academus or Ecademus.
page 466 note * Spencer: Principles of Sociology: Vol. III; Part vii: cap. i.
page 467 note * Spencer: First Principles: cap. x.
page 467 note † Lecture at the Royal Institution: 20th April 1888.
page 468 note * The Friend: Section I: Essay viii.
page 478 note * Whewell: Of a Liberal Education: Section V.
Whewell: Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics.
