which, with the rest of that kind, however they are received for maxims by the mathematicians, and are unquestionable truths, yet, I think, that any one who considers them will not find that they have a clearer self-evidence than these,-that 'one and one are equal to two', that 'if you take from the five fingers of one hand two, and from the five fingers of the other hand two, the remaining numbers will be equal.' These and a thousand other such propositions may be found in numbers, which, at the very first hearing, force the assent, and carry with them an equal if not greater clearness, than those mathematical axioms.
Horrelako mila proposizio aurki daitezke kopuruetan, entzun eta berehala baiespena ematea eragiten dutenak eta beren baitan axioma matematikoek adinako argitasuna daukatenak, handiagoa ez bada.