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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics: The exactness is a fake. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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About Sir William Alexander

	Sir William Alexander
	(c. 1567-1640) A Father's Book, 1997 - Earl of Stirling Scottish poet, tutor, secretary of state for Scotland.

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The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain By long experience, and in learned schools, Is for to know my knowledge is but vain, And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

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