The earth does it shows that illusions and moral phantasmagoria But you, O concise mathematics, by the rigorous chain of your proposals persistent and consistent laws of your iron, you shine, with dazzled eyes, a powerful reflection of the ultimate truth which we see the print in the order of the universe. But the order around you, especially represented by the perfect regularity of the square, the friend of Pythagoras, is even greater: for the Almighty has revealed completely, he and his attributes, in this memorable work that is to go out of the womb of chaos, your treasures and your beautiful theorems splendor. In ancient times and modern times, more than one human imagination saw his great genius, terrified at the contemplation of your symbolic figures traced on the paper burning, like so many mysterious signs, live in a breath latent than not include vulgar profane and were the dazzling revelation of eternal axioms and hieroglyphs, which existed before the universe and will continue after him. She asked, leaning over the precipice of a fatal question mark, how is it that mathematics contains many large scale and so incontestable truth, while, if compared to humans, it finds in him that false pride and lies. So the higher spirit, saddened, that the familiarity of your noble advice felt more the smallness of humanity and its incomparable madness, plunged his head, bleached, of a bony hand and remains absorbed in meditation supernatural