Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Torrey’s Philosophy of Descartes (New York, 1892), p. 63.
Why are wise few, fools numerous in the excesse?
’Cause, wanting number, they are numberlesse.
—Lovelace.
Noah Bridges: Vulgar Arithmetike (London, 1659), p. 127.
[1630]. The clearness and distinctness of each mode of number from all others, even those that approach nearest, makes me apt to think that demonstrations in numbers, if they are not more evident and exact than in extension, yet they are more general in their use, and more determinate in their application. Because the ideas of numbers are more precise and distinguishable than in extension; where every equality and excess are not so easy to be observed or measured; because our thoughts cannot in space arrive at any determined smallness beyond which it cannot go, as an unit; and therefore the quantity or proportion of any the least excess cannot be discovered.—Locke, John.
An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Bk. 2, chap. 16, sect. 4.
[1631]. Battalions of figures are like battalions of men, not always as strong as is supposed.—Sage, M.