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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.