MECHANISM OF NATURE 



any human thought or conception may be, it must 

 ultimately be based on something having identity. 



PROPOSITION II. 



The increase of squares is not an arbitrary en- 

 largement, but a fixed series of the multiplication 

 of individual squares. 



Let Figure A represent a square (X) increased 

 three times in length and breadth. Then it will 



Fig-A 



be seen that square X increased by the addition 

 of three squares (0) is increased twice in length 

 and breadth. And the farther addition of the 

 five squares (S) makes the whole resultant square 

 three times as long and three times as wide as the 

 original square (X). 



Because any square which we may use as a 

 standard of measurement, as, for instance, a square 

 inch, is an identical individual square. Therefore, 

 any area, which we may measure with this stand- 



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