Excerpt from The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin, 1912, Vol. 21As the drill will not penetrate the granite unless kept to the work hour after hour, so the mind will not penetrate the secrets Of mathematics unless held long and vigorously to the work. As the sun's rays burn only when coneen trated, so the mind achieves mastery in mathematics, and indeed in every branch Of knowledge, only when its pos sessor hurls all his forces upon it. Mathematics, like all the other sciences, opens its doors to those only who knock long and hard. NO more damaging evidence can be ad duced to prove the weakness Of character than for one to have aversion to mathematics, for whether one Wishes SO or not, it is nevertheless true, that to have aversion for mathematics means to have aversion to accurate, pains taking, and persistent hard study, and to have aversion to hard study is to fail to secure a liberal education, and thus fail to compete in that fierce and vigorous struggle for the highest and the truest and the best in life which only the strong can hope to secure. - B. F. Finkel. (from Mathe matical Nuts, by S. I. Jones, page v.)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.