Dialogue

1 Repub|       or that he who errs in arithmetic or grammar is an arithmetician
2 Repub|   that students of geometry, arithmetic, and the kindred sciences
3 Repub|   should have a knowledge of arithmetic? ~Certainly he should, if
4 Repub|      have clearer proof that arithmetic is, as I suspect, one of
5 Repub| number? ~Certainly. ~And all arithmetic and calculation have to
6 Repub|    our State to go and learn arithmetic, not as amateurs, but they
7 Repub|  mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating
8 Repub|       for all these reasons, arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in