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Clifford's Lectures and Essays
November 6, 1879 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Lectures and Essays," by William Kingdom Clifford. Many who have read hastily and at long intervals the essay here gathered together may have caught the impression of a genius too iconoclastic to be sympathetic, too fond of paradoxical statement to be wise, too eager for battle to be fair; but the massive effect of all essays taken together and combined with the personal account of Clifford in the introduction strongly modifies this feeling. But even the distant reader must allow that Clifford's mental personality belonged to the highest possible type, to say no more. The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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LECTURES & Essays (Book); CLIFFORD, William Kingdon, 1845-1879; ESSAYS; MATHEMATICS; LECTURES & lecturing; POETS
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