A_Mathematician's_Apology by G. H. Hardy
Author:G. H. Hardy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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All this is ‘ rhetoric ‘ ; but the substance of it seems to me still to ring true, and I can expand it at once without prejudging any of the other questions which I am leaving open.
I shall assume that I am writing for readers who are full, or have in the past been full, of a proper spirit of ambition. A man’s first duty, a young man’s at any rate, is to be ambitious. Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something noble in the ambition of Attila or Napoleon: but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind one something of permanent value —
Here on the level sand, Between the sea and land, What shall I build or write Against the fall of night?
Tell me of runes to grave That hold the bursting wave, Or bastions to design For longer date than mine.
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