We have an instance of this in numeration.

No idea is more obvious or simple than that of unity, or one.

By the continual addition of this, first to itself to make two, and then to each higher combination successively, we form a series of different numbers, which may go on to infinity.

In the consideration of these, the mind would not be able to go tar without the help of words, and those peculiarly fitted to the purpose.

The understanding would lose itself in the multiplicity, were it not aided by that curious concatenation of names, which has been contrived for the several parts of the succession.