Nomina
The state of being innumerable.
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Thus he reiecteth this innumerability of Causes
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Hero the lurking fallacy is unearthed; for who will seriously maintain that the innumerability of any series of objects—the stars, for instance —is a proof of their non-existence.
And its interminably repeated successions of stores of a certain kind—grocery, meat-market, delicatessen shop, “notion” store, saloon—recurring block after block, mile after mile, with paintshop, hat - store, men’s furnishing store, crockery - store, thrown in at perfectly regular intervals, are unexampled anywhere; they are, in their far-flung innumerability, a special expression of civilization in themselves. And, over all, the great, free, rapid, powerful, efficient movement of the mass: in the midst of it the new-comer begins to learn at last—especially when he has got over wanting his hulled corn and his Kennedy’s crackers— that he is really not in a “ jay town.”
I was once for the first time made aware of the Hibernian origin of a partner by his antics over an astonishing putt which won him the hole : for a moment of time his club might have been a shillelah, his feet moved to a jig. Golf brings out idiosyncrasies and peculiarities. Sometimes it brings out more than these ! Hence, perhaps, the innumerability of the anecdotes anent the irrepressibility of profanity while playing the game — a game proverbially provocative of reprehensible expletives. My eyes were lately opened to this sinister peculiarity when playing with a man, the author of a ponderous work, noted for the precision, even for the purism, of his diction. Usually he spake as he wrote\, and he wrote for gentlemen learned in the law.