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matician introduced the line called

matician introduced the line called
the vinculum, used for tying numbers
together. Girarde, another distin- :
guished mathematician, dispensed
with the vinculum and substituted
parentheSis, but either are proper |
William Oughtred, an Englishman, in
1851 invented st Andrews cross, x, to !,
signify multiplication. AS the EaS- |
tern hemisphere has given to the |
world such grand scientific works and
ideas pertaining to the mathematical
mind, so it has aggrandised itself as the
birth place of the Saviour, the pro- |
clamation of the Ten Commandments,
the landing or resting place OF the Ark,
the creation and home of Adam and |
Eve, and the birth, home and burial |
place of great many Industrious and |
good men, who labored in the cause OF |
their Heavenly Father.
Wonderful indeed is the thought
that the Almighty should choose or Sc
lect just that part OF Asia, whereby He
might people the earth; 1t being CEN
trail He no doubt calculated them to go
north, south, east and west and SO
people the whole earth. Again, His
Ten Commandments being proclaimed
by Moses right here in the center, is
Indicative that they should proceed
bearing the armor OF Gods will. Again
Noah and his family should have rested
on Mt Ararat, about one hundred
vr,1o 1a1i 1,o
Ten Commandments and between Mt
Ararat and Mt Sinai the Saviour was
born into the world. Why this part of
the earth was selected for all this, we
have faint ideas. We might suggest
because it was central, and its climate
was good, being on the latitude of Sa-
vannah and New York, - North to Al
North.
| Mt Ararat in Armenia is II, 200 feet
high, Is miles and 136 feet). The Hyma-
laya mountains are 29,OO2 feet high,
Is miles and 27O feet). Imagine a
building $50 feet long, Is feet wide and
As feet high, elevated into the air
three miles and 1876 feet, and located on
top of a mountain. What a grand
phenomenon this must have been to
behold; yet there were only eight peo'
pie in the world to witness it. How
, level earth from that exceeding high
, point, I'll not state here. 1t is mani.
, fest that the mountains were covered
, with waters, for otherwise the dove
would have found a resting place fol
/ the sole of her foot. July IT, the Sil
hundredth year, did the.Ark rest or
, Ararat. Then the whole population
t of the earth we're four men and foul
5 women. 53O6 years ago the population
: of the earth was eight. What is the
+ population Of the earth to-day? What
: would be the population If Che dead
: could rise to their feet? There would
, not be standing room for them and
the living on land and water. quad
, rillions, 1872 trillions, SAT. billions, Ii!
. millions, GIL thousand, 1904 square
= feet on the surface of the earth. Nov
: if each person would occupy one squar'
s foot, there would be just as many In
e habitants as there are square feet. Ii
s computing this we are obliged to fal
s back onto that wonderful invention o.
: the Hindoos. In fact we are totally
lost without it. Contemplate ii vol
: please, and note that a few simple
y characters, ten in number, would in
, volve the incalculable expansion al
these few characters. So few that the!
A can be compacted into space, that 8
4 small shot when flattened would OBJ
D scure it from sight. Yet any number
, however large or however small, or un
, der any fractional value, can be ex
j. pressed. Tell me We men of science
e ye men of deep thought, what littl,
I thing beneath flattened shot, cal
+ measure the earth, and even the sun
] in inches, or can shade the unit int
: infinitesimal size, that its value would
e not bear enough measurement to b.
assignable quantity? Worlds may re
e volve, oceans may roll, earthquake
= may open the earth, volcanoes ma!
: emit its lava, and the violent win.
t may sweep the earth, but these tel
little characters can measure the rev