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I HAVE always taken it for granted that the chief, if not the only, objection to Euclid's Elements as forming an introductory course in geometry is that a very large proportion of beginners are unable to work riders for themselves, and consequently they are reduced to the necessity of merely reading up the propositions in such a way as to be able to reproduce them more or less mechanically in the examination room.
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BRYAN, G. Rearrangement of Euclid Book I. Nature 65, 585 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065585b0
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