"To accompany this issue with an apology would almost seem out of place. Truth is one, and while we seek to promote its advancement in science, we are but preparing the way for its development in that loftier knowledge, which as Christian men and missionaries, it is our chief desire to see consummated."
— Alexander Wylie
Source: English preface to the Supplementary Elements of Geometry (1857), quoted in Henri Cordier, "Life and Labours of Alexander Wylie", Chinese Researches (1897)