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Prefat: (23 Origination of Numbers

and have at hand to repose to view when was the
number of the objects of their notion come was
necessary to be expressed. Nones, leaves, and even
fingers or motions of them were probably some of the first
things made use of for that purpose.

After having for some time made use of an equal
number of small [portable/ostensible] objects to
express the number of distant [nonstensible] ones
the advantages of signifying substances
of which they had occasion to speak by making
stands, must have been too great to have permitted
the Idea of different numbers to remain without expressions
of the same kind.
in process of time we may suppose having occasion to
speak often of small number of things and finding
it even tedious to be obliged to produce shares and
the like to express them or even to
expose to more immediate view a certain number
of his fingers, finding after that
and having him accustomed to gave name to make cards to express substances
why which they meant to speak of, we may suppose
they began to give an express sounds at the time
of exposing to view their little objects. The
of there names in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	135	Main Headings
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	prefat.
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [pro patria motif]]]
Marginals	sir samuel bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	46160
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