Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-11

| JOHOWlHg carefully: %
/ From R n. Els article, Prof Olney's Calculus
| Iusculum II e d. page ! and 2, of ms
| February 9th. page General Geometry and
| = Continuous num- Calculus
/ Der is number which " Continuous num-
/ is conceived as com. ter is mum Der which
/ posed of infnitesi nal Is conceived as COM
/ parts, or it Is number posed OF InbnItesImaI
/ which passes from parts; or it is mum Der
! one state or value to- which passes from
another, by passing one state OF value to
! through all interme- another by passing
! date values or states through all interme-
"DiscO1t uuo u s date values or states.
number is number " DiscOnti u u
conceived as made up number IS mum Der
Of finite parts: or il is conceived as made
number which passes up OF mite parts or
from one state of val 1t Is numOe when
ue to another by the passes from one state
successive additions Of aggregation to an
or SubtrGcttons of other by the snCces-
| finite units. sive additions of fin
Mr.. Sherwood lie units.
! seems to conceive of We usually con-
time as made up Of celVe OF time as DIS
discontinuous num- continuous number
Der, as OF minutes. rs when we think of
| hours, days, years, It as made up OF hours
etc. But it is easy toI days, weeks etc.
see that such is NOT But it is easy to see
the way in which mat such Is not the
time actually grows. way IN winch time
A period of one day actually grows. A
does not grow to be n period of enc day
period of enc weeL does not grow to be a
by taking on a whole perloq OF one week
day at time, or q Oy taxing on Whole
whole hour, or even day at a time, or
a whole second ItIwhole hour, or even
grows by i'm percepti-la whole second. Ii
BILE inc g m e n s grows by impercept-
These inCOnCeivably tDle lncFemeHts.
small parts Of which these lncOncelVa0Iy
time is made up are small parts OF which
called iDfnsteSi- time is made up are
mails" called infniLesmi-
ials."
Prof Kite, CLERK Of the Faculty,"
that truthful, iufaiHble parsonage, EN-
phatiCaiiy declares that the language
OF h. " Il IS not to be found IN e Their
~ If these authors, as any one mag see
that Gun read Referring to O!usy,
ct al
L emphatically say that Prof Kite.
has willfully, knowingly, premedita-
teddy ami mRliciOusly stated q false
hood, as any one can see that viii
read.
FALSE SYNTAX.
Q-t) The gentleman saows his ig-
uOTance, both Iu Latin and Logic, 10y
usIug The expression, 'ignOrtiO elenchi,
ETC. while r. n. e. SAID igROrdtiO
elenchi. " Il. Kite, Il. ".
~
of Grammar ami Rhetoric while K.
n E says IguuTatio eienchi. See
Swinton's English Grammar, page
ll6, section, $40, IN reference to The
use of "a proposition after the introduce |
tory correlstive, both, either, etc.
end The language of r. n. E. is !
not to be found in either of the aua |
thors, ~. n. KITE, 4. N
In this sentence MIR. Kite has refer |
ence to four authors; consequently, |
his use of either, is both inelegant and |
improper. See SwintOn's Grammar, !
page log, sec. 292; Harvey's, p Al, sec. !
As; Buffers, p. IA, sec. Is; Kerl's, p. |
50, sec. 2lO; Harris, p. "a; BonneIl's |
Composition. p. 800, sec. sos; Web
ster's Unabridged Dictionary. These |
ought to have been "Uegy OBJ !
at that office. Many other |
mar could be pointed out in Prof. |
Kites article, but forbear.
know 1 make mistakes; but those
who live in glass houses like Prof.
Kite, very thin at that, ought not to
begin to throw stones.
In view of the above facts, Prof.
Kite has written remarkable article
it's web and wool run the
dark aud poisonous threats of false
hood and slander. It claims to vindi-
cate the slandered; but it is itself a
,currilOus libel. 1t claims to speak
he truth, but every paragraph is preg-
lant with malicious falsehood. 1t
accuses the innocent of plagiarism
while it's author, according to every
principle of law, is 'loarticepS crinai.
us" to the crime of literary theft. 1t
rrogates to the Tusculum Record
UGH accuracy as to blot out whole
because a letter is omitted
n single word; while it is itself
illed with solecisms, and is the expo
tent of gross ignorance. Minerva
ike, it claims to have leaped from a
cultivated brain but an examination
,rOve it to be the child of intellectual