Counting is the first free theoretical mental act of the child. Let us count , the Preussische Staats-Zeitung calls to its sisters. I know a man's head when I know how many hairs grow on it. Do as you would be done by. Statistics will not merely prove that I appear as often as any French or English newspaper, but also that I am less read than any newspaper in the civilised world.
Numerical tables instruct the public without exciting their emotions.
Thus the Preussische Staats-Zeitung is not without modern philosophical foundations, in spite of its apparent positivism. It does not stop at number, temporal magnitude. It carries the recognition of the quantitative principle further and proclaims the justification of spatial magnitude. Space is the first thing whose magnitude impresses the child. It is the first magnitude which the child encounters in the world.