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78 dreamers nor maniacs; they are revealing, in the domain of emotion, a Law which the mathematical doctrine of Singular Solutions reveals to the intellect, viz. that the process of conceiving an antithetical exception is a necessary medium between the mind of man and any very thorough comprehension of the Laws which govern Humanity.

The study of the phenomenon of the Messianic Seerhood became the absorbing interest of George Boole's later years. The chapter on Singular Solutions in his text-book of Differential Equations contains much genuine metaphysical truth expressed in mathematical terminology. He made a special study of the sermons of the strange preacher, F. D. Maurice; and in the last year of his life wrote: "I have made out what puts the whole subject of Singular Solutions into a state of Unity." What strange pulsation of thought must have thrilled from the mind of the great Seer of Messianic Singular Solution, into that of the logician of the Unity, before those words were written, who can guess? The MS. on which George Boole was engaged at the time lies undeciphered in the archives of the Royal Society; no mere mathematician can understand it: and no theologian cares to try. Perhaps it may be deciphered yet; when further progress has been made in knowledge of the correspondence between the normal action of the human mind and its automatic expression by means of notations.