stress occurs in that isolation of moment in time, or of aspect 
in space, that is beyond the power of touch, or hearing, or 
smell, or movement. By imposing unvisualizable relationships 
that are the result of instant speed, electric technology 
dethrones the visual sense and restores us to the dominion of 
synesthesia, and the close interinvolvement of the other 
senses.

     Spengler was plunged into a Slough of Despond by what 
he saw as the Western retreat from Numerical Magnitude into a 
Faery Land of Functions and abstract relations. “The most 
valuable thing in classical mathematics,” he wrote, “is its 
proposition that number is the essence of all things perceptible  
to the senses . Defining number as a measure, it contains the 
whole world feeling of a soul passionately devoted to the ‘here’ 
and ‘now.’ Measurement in this sense means the measurement