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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.1913 Excerpt: ... SOME ORIGINS OF THE NUMBER TWO When was Two discovered or invented, or won by some process which was neither, or a blending of both? Surely before a dozen, a score or a hundred were known. Its emergence in the mind of the beast-man antedated written and even spoken language. Are there 'to-day animals other than man that see a Two as Two? There are men, civilized men, who have never conceived Two in all its abstractness, in all its generality, in all its independence. For beasts and savages and most of their descendants the Like and the Unlike are touches, tastes, smells, odors, colors and temperatures; and only a few have forced on them the consideration of shapes, sizes, distances, of the more or less of this and that. One heap or series or pile or mass was larger than another, they might be aware; but exact comparison would hardly be made till men had to make it. Before Two could appear, some such notions were present as are all too definitely expressed by our many, few, more, less, some. Our school-bred generation thinks of the symbols, two, deux, duo, zwei, or more often, of 2, rather than of the idea or conception or phenomenon or reality, or whatever it may be that we are now seeking the origin of. The likeness one man is conscious of, another cannot discern, though the things are before his eyes, and the likeness, says the former, "plain as day." There are tribes that have names for a couple, a brace, a pair, a yoke, a span, a deuce; but no name, like two for what is common to all these, no consciousness of that kind of resemblance in them. Salutary inability to generalize, to burst the bonds that time and place and circumstance have imposed on us! Note in what precisely this inability consists. We who have seen the likeness over and over again, who ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235754782
- ISBN 13 9781235754784
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages38
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