If, for example, you will grant me, as an Axiom, that there is
some finite minimum value for the sum of the angles of a
Triangle, no matter how small you make it, all is easy at once: grant
me, for instance, that no Triangle can possibly have the sum of its
angles less than a millionth of a right angle, and I am happy!
Finally, I am inclined to believe that, if ever Euc. I. 32 is proved
without a new Axiom, it will be by some new and ampler definition
of the Right Line—some definition which shall connote that
peculiar and mysterious property, which it must somehow possess, which
causes Euc. I. 32 to be true. Try that track, my gentle Reader!
It is not much trodden as yet. And may success attend your search!
THE END.
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