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Excerpt from Inaugural Address Delivered in the State House, Dec; 8, 1857: By Order of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina College
Now, as surely as the order of complexity and depen dence among the sciences, which I have mentioned above necessitates a corresponding order of historic develop ment, so surely does it also necessitate the same order in the culture of each individual. In this, as well as in many other instances, the history of the race is the type of the history of the individual. In every complete seientific course therefore, Mathematics must be first, and Geology last in order of time. They form as it were the two opposite poles of a scientific course. If we diminish or destroy the one or the other, the equilibrium is over thrown, the completeness of the course is destroyed. In the one case we imitate the folly of him who builds his house upon sand or straw, in the other of him who exhausting his means in laying deep the foundation, built nothing thereon.
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