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nent among which in the latter field, we place the name of Lynthicum, the scholarly and learned teacher of New York. In the department for ladies' and children's garments are given in principle, those shades of thought common to science, and the practice of such cutters as Pingat, Durnzean, Felix, Hantenaar, Martini, Tainturier,
Meyer, Sara, Lipperheide, and Pacaude with those of other foreign as well as authorities of equal or even greater ability, but of less notoriety. But the measures and system are, entirely and in a preeminent sense, new and original. Most cheerfully accepting scientific truth wherever found, the author has nevertheless chosen and adopted only such principles which proved themselves absolutely true, in a purely mathematical sense, and from an independent and purely scientific and he has founded, prosecuted, and completed the work under the standpoint influence of a thorough conviction that any method, not equal to, or commensurate in ;
American
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variation with that of fashion is
and form,
is
of necessity deficient to that extent
therefore utterly inadequate to the necessities
and emergencies of the
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and
cutter.
Principia non homines has been the motto of the author, in all his investigations and and viulhim in parvo secundum artem, in the mode of construction. He
researches;
has studiously and conscientiously sought
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," on this, to many, seemingly vexatious problem and he has aimed to give expression to the practical use of its solution, in the most simple and easily comprehended form possible. Accuracy, simplicity, economy of time, labor, '
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material, and money wedded to ease of comprehension have been the grand watchwords of the author. Those having thought absolute accuracy in garment-cutting from actual measurement alone, as necessarily requiring a very complicated system of details, will be happily surprised at the exceeding simplicity of science, as taught and applied in the work. The system is truly and mathematically founded, in all its elements and principles of application, in measurement and drafting from the neck to the floor upon actual measurement, and nothing but, and all possible and necessary actual measurement. It is unique, in that it is the first and only system in the world founded on the practical common sense and scientific principle of the mathematical inch rule and its mathematical divisions only, independent of any particular form of the mathematical inch instrument whatever; which is the only true and proper instrument assigned by science, philosophy, and mathematics, to the cutter, in transferring the mathematical mould of the human form, as expressed by the measures or indices, upon the goods whether directly or indirectly. It is also unique, in that it is the first and only system in the world based strictly upon scientific mathematical principles alone, absolutely independent of any fixed proportional forms or seams; thus making fashion its perpetual slave! And it is for this very reason, and by virtue of its purely scientific principles of construction, and the philosophy of their execution through the only instruments assigned to the province of the cutter, by mathematics, the first and only system in the world that is fully and truly commensurate with all possible variation of form and fashion, whether past, present, or future. Provincial to, and founded in its axiomatic principles of construction, and in its instruments of execution, on the immovable rock of pure mathematics, and commensurate therewith in variation of application and result, it is of necessity as immutable in its laws, as those which goA^ern that science, when delineating the orbits of the planets, or in measuring the cycles of the ages.
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