48 Major Price’s Extracts from the Mualijdt-i-Ddrd Shekohi. 
which, when added together, make six more than itself {rather three] ; and 
some are medial, as in six, of which the parts are a half, and a third, and a 
sixth, which added together make six like itself; the consideration 
of these numbers will discover to him what he did not previously perceive. 
So, when he is instructed that every number is composed of the halves of 
its two sides when added together, he will not comprehend the fact until 
further explained. But when they cause him to hear, for example, that 
four is the sum of the half of its two sides,* five and three, added together, 
the half of five being two and a half, and the half of three one and a half, 
which, added together, make four, he not only hears but his sense of hearing 
is materially improved. 
Furthermore, when he comes to the geometrical branch of the sciences, 
and it is stated to him that the product of two sides of a square, when added 
together, will be found equal to the product of the sectional parts of such 
square, he will neither comprehend the statement nor see the effect, until 
they place before him the figure of a square, divided by two right lines into 
four sections, and each section is again divided diametrically into two parts, 
so that a square shall be produced from these four sections, each side of 
which square, being the diameter of each of the sections of those four 
sections, shall be equal to two. ‘Thus shall he be made both to hear the 
statement and perceive the figures ; and thus shall he have acquired, by his 
progress in this science, a sight and hearing of which he was not previously 
in possession. 
Such is the case with relation to the improvement in sight aud hearing 
which a man will acquire as he advances in the different branches of 
science ; and thus he that ascends the higher in the scale of knowledge 
becomes hourly more perfect both in sight and hearing: while he that 
remains stationary continues both blind and dumb, in the condition of the 
* Probably meaning the figures on either side of it. 
+ Ihave been quite puzzled with this passage, and therefore must give it in the original! 
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The proficient in mathematics will be able to state this with the proper precision: it is pro- 
bably designed to indicate that a square is equal to all its sections, however subdivided. 
