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Prefat:

We by time see distances (non existencies) measured take the name and station <add> of a substantive spoken of as an existence enought with others &c</add>
by a common measure divided into other lesser
supposed existences all for the purpose of
judging of the proportion of one to the other
it is by the number of their common measures
that men ever were and continued to be
accustomed to judge of the proportion between
aliquots. [Numbers then must be the most
general source for finding names for distance.]
it is then by the assistance of number if
at all that you can get any accurate
Idea of the Proportion the object bears to
another that can be more general.

Why the objection the confinedness [too close
limits] of its use [applications].

Numbers
General

I said if at all Many are the improper
substantives the proportion of bodies which to
this day cannot be spoken of with any
accuracy as being more or less, the proportion
can not be discerned hardness Colors &.

if take a and a piece of butter and
A man takes a knife, he presses the edge
on a piece of butter the butter yields to
his force the knife exerts he divides one
part from the other. This same knife

Identifier: | JB/135/043/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	135	Main Headings
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field	prefat.
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [pro patria motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	46161
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