integration. Such a universality of conscious being for mankind 
was dreamt of by Dante, who believed that men would remain 
mere broken fragments until they should be united in an 
inclusive consciousness. What we have today, instead of a 
social consciousness electrically ordered, however, is a private 
subconsciousness or individual “point of view” rigorously 
imposed by older mechanical technology. This is a perfectly 
natural result of “culture lag” or conflict, in a world suspended 
between two technologies.

     The ancient world associated number magically with the 
properties of physical things, and with the necessary causes of 
things, much as science has tended until recent times to 
reduce all objects to numerical quantities. In any and all of its 
manifestations, however, number seems to have both auditory 
and repetitive resonance, and a tactile dimension as well.