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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