The knowledge that 'the whole is equal to all its parts,' and 'if you take equals from equals, the remainder will be equal,' &c., helped him not, I presume, to this demonstration: and a man may, I think, pore long enough on those axioms, without ever seeing one jot the more of mathematical truths.
"Osoa bere atal guztien berdina dela" eta "berdinei berdinak kenduz gero, hondar berdinak geratzen direla" jakiteak ez zion, nik uste, lagunduko aipatu berri duguna frogatzeko, zeren nahi bezain luzaro axioma horiez hausnarrean ibilitako gizakiak, nire ustez, egia matematikoez ez du fitsik ere gehiago ikusiko.