The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 136
hat by playing the three we enable our partner tocalculate how many we have left of the suit, and thus, in somemeasure, assist him to count our hand, but this is a collateraladvantage; the knowledge he thus acquires is not the result ofa conventionalism, but is a direct and logical deduction… … the beginning1 of the firstarticle on this subject I quotedFaradays remark that toysare the most philosophicalthings in the world. This may not be quite clearwithout an example or two.Suppose we take a childs kite;may we not by its aid identifylightning with electricity, andreceive an instructive…
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