But yet [masters of mathematics, when they would, as teachers of what they know, initiate others in that science do not] without reason place this and some other such maxims [at the entrance of their systems]; that their scholars, having in the beginning perfectly acquainted their thoughts with these propositions, made in such general terms, may be used to make such reflections, and have these more general propositions, as formed rules and sayings, ready to apply to all particular cases.
Baina, hala ere, matematikako irakasleek berek dakienaren ezagutzan beste batzuk sartzen saiatzen direnean, horrelakoxe maximak jartzen dituzte, ez arrazoirik gabe, euren sistemaren hasieran, ikasleek hasieratik euren pentsamenduak termino orokorretako proposizio horietara eginda edukirik, horrelako hausnarketak egiten ekandu daitezen eta proposizio orokor horiek, arauak eta esaerak eratuta, kasu partikularretara aplikatzeko prest eduki ditzaten.