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As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?