Volume 159 — EUCLID IN REAL LIFE.
Reading edition
If it was not for the paper-shortage I should at once re-write Euclid, or those parts of him which I understand. The trouble about old Euclid was that he had no soul, and few of his books have that emotional appeal for which we look in these days. My aim would be to bring home his discoveries to the young by clothing them with human interest; and I should at the same time demonstrate to the adult how often they might be made practically useful in everyday life. When one thinks of the times one draws a straight line at right angles to another straight line, and how seldom one does it Euclid's way ... every time one writes a T....
Well, let us take, for example—