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PHILOSOPHY AND FUN OF ALGEBRA which is to provide people who have left school with a means of learning the relation between three dimensions and four.

The use of the books which are signed George Boole or Mary Everest Boole is to provide reasonable people, who have learned the logic of algebra conscientiously, with a means of teaching themselves the relations between n dimensions and n+1 dimensions, whatever number n may be.

The above is a quite accurate account of the real Boole Method; as much as there is any need for you to know while you are at school.

I should feel grateful to you if you will each copy it out in a clear handwriting, and keep it by you, and take it home whenever you go away from school for the holidays. It would be all the better if you learned it by heart.

And now I will tell you why I am so anxious about this.

The Boole method is a conveyance which will take you safety to wherever the Great Unknown directs you to go. Some people mistake it for the carpet in the Arabian Nights which took 52