The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Quotes

“(...) In other languages the change from one numeral to the next is so slight that one instinctively concludes that the savage is forming in his own mind another, to him new, numeral immediately from the last...”
― Levi Leonard Conant, The Number Concept Its Origin and Development

“(...) the high limit to which some savage races carry their numeration is far more worthy of remark than the entire absence of the number sense exhibited by others of apparently equal intelligence. If the life of any tribe is such as to induce trade and barter with their neighbours, a considerable quickness in reckoning will be developed among them. Otherwise this power will remain dormant because there is but little in the ordinary life of primitive man to call for its exercise.”
― Levi Leonard Conant, The Number Concept Its Origin and Development