With a spirit ill fitted to sustain such proof, trembling and feeble through its tenderness, I have everywhere sought sympathy, and have found only repulse and disappointment.

带着没法承受这类现实的感情，在温顺的颤栗和虚弱中，我在海角天际寻觅知音，而得到的却只是憎恨与失望。

And then it deals with the ancient Greece 's traditional math: emphasis on both proof and scientific spirit.

再论及古希腊数学传统：演绎证明与科学精神。最后阐述东西方不同的文化传统对数学教育有不同的影响。