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Western man devised the parallel but antithetic mode of
number in order to cope with all of the non-Euclidean
dimensions of daily experience. He continues (p. 140):
But how can the flat and the straight and the
uniform be adapted to its very opposite, the skew and the
curved and the non-uniform? Not by a finite number of
steps, certainly! The miracle can be accomplished only by
that miracle-maker the infinite . Having determined to
cling to the elementary rational notions, we have no other
alternative than to regard the ‘curved’ reality of our
senses as the ultra-ultimate step in an infinite sequence
of flat worlds which exist only in our imagination.
The miracle is that it works!