I'm counting on you to explain everything calmly.
Indeed, it is only by experience that we can know that any definite process of counting will give the true cardinal number of some class of entities.
The Crusades had sprung from the policy of a theocratic government counting on the motive of otherworldliness; they had helped in their course to overthrow that motive, and with it the government which it had made possible.
It is only recently that the succession of processes which is involved in any act of counting has been seen to be irrelevant to the idea of number.
