XVIII.  You say, Things of one essence are counted together, but those which are not consubstantial are reckoned one by one.  Where did you get this from?  From what teachers of dogma or mythology?  Do you not know that every number expresses the quantity of what is included under it, and not the nature of the things?  But I am so old fashioned, or perhaps I should say so unlearned, as to use the word Three of that number of things, even if they are of a different nature, and to use One and One and One in a different way of so many units, even if they are united in essence, looking not so much at the things themselves as at the quantity of the things in respect of which the enumeration is made.  But since you hold so very close to the letter (although you are contending against the letter), pray take your demonstrations from this source.  There are in the Book of Proverbs three things which go well, a lion, a goat, and a cock; and to these is added a fourth;—a King making a speech before the people, Prov. xxx. 29, 30. 31. to pass over the other sets of four which are there counted up, although things of various natures.  And I find in Moses two Cherubim Exod. xxxvii. 7. counted singly.  But now, in your technology, could either the former things be called three, when they differ so greatly in their nature, or the latter be treated as units when they are so closely connected and of one nature?  For if I were to speak of God and Mammon, as two masters, reckoned under one head, when they are so very different from each other, I should probably be still more laughed at for such a connumeration.