General Patton

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    Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)