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to be so facile and turns out so baffling must stand in
need of logical analysis; and thereupon he showed that he
was a master in an art in which some of the greatest
mathematicians, especially those of the XVIIIth century
have been singularly weak, that of conducting such an
analysis. He began by generalizing the problem to the
utmost; an excellent expedient, since highly generalized concepts
are necessarily less complex than they were before the
generalization. However, that maxim would not have