Dialogue

 1 Repub|     are aware that students of geometry, arithmetic, and the kindred
 2 Repub|    speaking of the province of geometry and the sister arts. ~And
 3 Repub|        which is concerned with geometry and the cognate sciences
 4 Repub|    also concerns us? ~You mean geometry? ~Exactly so. ~Clearly,
 5 Repub|    concerned with that part of geometry which relates to war; for
 6 Repub|        a very little of either geometry or calculation will be enough;
 7 Repub|        True, he said. ~Then if geometry compels us to view being,
 8 Repub|        least acquaintance with geometry will not deny that such
 9 Repub|     confuse the necessities of geometry with those of daily life;
10 Repub|    That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the
11 Repub|         Then, my noble friend, geometry will draw the soul toward
12 Repub|      should by all means learn geometry. Moreover, the science has
13 Repub|         anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker of
14 Repub| mistake? he said. ~After plane geometry, I said, we proceeded at
15 Repub|         First you began with a geometry of plane surfaces? ~Yes,
16 Repub|       ludicrous state of solid geometry, which, in natural order,
17 Repub|      said, in astronomy, as in geometry, we should employ problems,
18 Repub|     therefore, calculation and geometry and all the other elements