Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine,  3 (1854–55), 257–62.

Kavanagh  [1/10]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genre:

Short Fiction, Serial

Subjects:

Mathematics, Education, Commerce, Natural Theology


    Mr Churchill, responding to his wife's claim that mathematics is not 'poetical', denies that the 'grand science of numbers' is merely for 'trade', and argues that it is 'divine' and only 'prosaic' owing to the way it is taught (260).



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