So we see that the greatest issues of our life are determined by mathematics.

It's a splendid and romantic study.

I wish you fellows would pay more attention to it." "Mathematics beautiful and romantic!" exclaimed Pennington.

"Why, George, you're out of your head! There's nothing in the world I hate more than the sight of an algebra!" "The trouble is with you and not with the algebra.

You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.
When I said algebra was a beautiful and romantic study I used the adjectives purposely.