Francis Wayland Parker

"Number was born in superstition and reared in mystery,... numbers were once made the foundation of religion and philosophy, and the tricks of figures have had a marvellous effect on a credulous people…"

"All mental and moral development is by self-activity. Education is the economizing of self-effort in the direction of all-sided development."

"The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time."

"Form and size constitute the foundation of all search for truth."

"Slowly the human beings have arise n-guided by a glimmering light — and have climbed spiritually from the earth and the clod, from the shrub and tree up the broad walls of the arched sky, to stars, an…"