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the most deeply studied the fundamenetals of
their science have even gone so far as to
pronounce mathematics to be a branch of
logic. Dedekind is one of these whose little books published
in one volume in translation by the Open
Court Company, which is doing so much for
American culture, I should strongly recommend
to your attention. The fact that so profound
a mathematician can hold this opinion is a
sufficient justification of my devoting
several luctures of this short course to a
study of the nature of mathematics.

I do not quite agree with Dedekin, myself;
and I will tell you why presently. The question
of whether mathematics was a branch of logic was