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not a single one can remain, but all of them are utterly defective, when once you remove numeration.And one may judge, perhaps, for brevity's sake how the human race needs number, by glancing at the arts—and yet that too is a great matter—but if you note the divinity of birth, and its mortality, in which awe of the divine must be acknowledged, and real number,1
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1 i.e. our birth and death are alike under divine influence, and this means that they are governed by number—a Pythagorean argument.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
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