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"What shall we say of the mathematics? Shall we deem them to be the delirious ravings of madmen? Nay; we cannot read the writings of the ancients on these subjects without the highest admiration."

JOHN CALVIN, Institute and Eureka, 17.

Reproduced from Eureka 27 page 8.
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