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The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.

— Joseph Glanvill The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1662)

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The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.

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