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mind nowadays. For the same distortions of reality that we
associate with our conventions of abstractly visual perception
also invaded mathematics, science and the verbal arts of logic
and poetry. In the past century of non-Euclidean geometries,
symbolic logics, and symbolist poetry, the same discovery has
been repeated. That is to say, single-plane lineal, visual, and
sequential codification of experience is quite conventional and
limited. It is in danger of being brushed aside today in every
area of Western experience. We have long been accustomed to
praising the Greeks for the invention of visual order in
sculpture, painting, science, as well as in philosophy, literature,
and politics. But today, having learned how to play with each of
the senses in isolation, scholars look askance at the Greeks for
their pusillanimity: “Whatever else the story, as I have pieced it
together, may tell, it brings out the fact that Greek art and
Greek geometry were based on the same tactile-muscular