Note 1 — [1] PAPER I.
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We presume this is addressed to an imaginary brain wave.
2 We observe here the dash of an indignant pen, and a substituted for e. But now the rhyme is spoiled. Gentle Muse, thou art sacrificed by the stern hand of Mathematical Truth!
3 Query: Does the writer refer to the learned treatise on Finite Differences by Professor Boole?