 | Francis Galton - 1853 - 352 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding-rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...secure the fingers that are required for " units." Yet they seldom lose oxen : the way in which they discover the loss of one, is not by the number of... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...and secure the fingers that are required for units. Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which they discover the loss of one is not hy the number of... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1864 - 342 pages
...African Damaras have no numerals beyond three. They calculate on their fingers, and are terribly puzzled after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp...and secure the fingers that are required for units. t Many doubtless were the stages by which nations passed from the vague idea of multitude to the definite... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1864 - 332 pages
...African Damaras have no numerals beyond three. They calculate on their fingers, and are terribly puzzled after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp...and secure the fingers that are required for units. f Many doubtless were the stages by which nations passed from the vague idea of multitude to the definite... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding-rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...stage of thought when all beyond two was an idea of indefinite number. We can discern the various stages which have, in certain nations, marked the passage... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...secure the fingers that are required for units."* Mr. Crawfurd, to whom we are indebted for an interesting paper on this subject, f has examined no less... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 802 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...secure the fingers that are required for 'units.' Yet they seldom lose oxen: the way in which they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1870 - 364 pages
...Numbers have furnished a test for intellectual development. Mr. Wilson supposed the dual form evidenced that stage of thought when all beyond two was an idea of vague number. An English judge acquitted a Cingalese, on a charge of murder, as non compos mentis, because he could... | |
 | 1893 - 902 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare...and secure the fingers that are required for units. Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of... | |
 | james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp and secure the the godlike intellect evidently will not apply here. If the emotions of the German and his intellectual... | |
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Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. 
