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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759. Excerpt: ... Cases to be deceived. Just so it is in judging of Duration. When we carry back our Thoughts to any past Period of our Lives, without Consideration of the Number of Years, or Months; we iind, that our Idea of the Time elapsed grows more distinct,-in proportion as we become sensible of the intermediate Parts of our Existence. At first, we are apt to judge the Distance extremely short, but when we set ourselves to consider our several successive Thoughts and Actions, the Idea of the Duration grows upon us, and continues to increase, as the Attention of the Mind brings new Periods of Lise into view. VI. Hence it will be easy to conu'am,tvt ceive, how much the Mind is helped cannot matt forward in its Perception of Number, ary Progress r inNumbtrirg. by that ready Comprehension of all the several Stages in a Progression, which peculiarly belongs to Ideas of this Class. But this, as I have before intimated, we derive from the orderly Series and Connection of Names, insomuch that where they cease, the Computation of Numbers also ceases with them. We can have no Idea of any Sum, without a Knowledge of all the Terms that go before, according to the natural Order, in which they follow one another; so that he who cannot, in a regular way, count to ninety-nine, will never, while that Incapacity continues, be able to form form the Idea of a hundred; because the Chain that holds the Parts together, is to him wholly unserviceable, nor can he represent to his Mind, the several interjacent Combinations, without which it i» impossible in this Case, to arrive at a distinct Perception.. VII. I Have insisted the more largely upon this, not only because it is by va„faga of s Number that we measure all other AMrtji u thj/tng our Things, as Duration, Extension, Mo-com...
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