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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28,
by Various
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860
Author: Various
Release Date: December 2, 2006 [EBook #19995]
Language: English
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. V.--FEBRUARY, 1860.--NO. XXVIII.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the article.
COUNTING AND MEASURING.
Though, from the rapid action of the eye and the mind, grouping and counting by groups appear to be a single operation, yet, as things can be seen in succession only, however rapidly, the counting of things, whether ideal or real, is necessarily one by one. This is the first step of the art. The second step is grouping. The use of grouping is to economize speech in numeration, and writing in notation, by the exercise of the memory. The memorizing of groups is, therefore, a par