Eric Bell, The Search for Truth's Quote - The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bron

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth

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