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offered will be found sufficient, not only to banish all regret 

 for the nonadoption of the duodenary scale as a supposed 

 reform in the principles of arithmetic, but also to convince 

 us that the established denary radix, even though origin- 

 ally accepted without reference to scientific conditions, is 

 after all the one best sanctioned by a theoretical examina- 

 tion of the several reasons that ought to govern in making 

 a free selection. 



