every the least variation, which is an unit, making each combination as clearly different from that which approacheth nearest to it, as the most remote; two being as distinct from one, as two hundred; and the idea of two as distinct from the idea of three, as the magnitude of the whole earth is from that of a mite.
3. Zenbakiaren modu bakunak gainerako guztien artean bereizienak dira, zeren aldaerarik txikienak, unitateak, egiten baitu konbinazio bakoitza hurren duenetik urrunenetik bezain diferentea izatea, bi zenbakia hain bereizia izanik batetik, nola berrehunetik, eta biren ideia hain bereizia hiruren ideiatik, nola lur guztiaren magnitudea bihi batenetik.