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Excerpt from Mechanics and Mechanism: Being Elementary Essays and Examples for the Use of Schools, Students
The work is essentially popular, and we may add practical we have given results and arrangements only, refraining from an exposition of those strictly theoretical rules and mathematical formularies which serve, in many instances, to confuse rather than to enlighten, to deter rather than induce the pupil to proceed. Not that we deem this theory and that mathematical formula useless or unnecessary but we have so frequently been impressed with the benefit to be derived, in the study of mechanical arrangement, from separating the purely theoretical from the purely prac tical, that we have determined to adopt in this work the principle of giving only practical arrangements and their results.
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