¶ Cipher
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Cipher:
“It is a valid reflection that the non-inclusion of the cipher is accountable by the fact that the people had been so materialistic in their viewpoint that they had not conceived of any necessity for a symbol for intangibility, infiniteness, or abstraction. Man had not yet penetrated the nonsensorial bands. The cipher (called cafrun in Arabic) had been imported by the ‘pollenizing bee’ from the Hindus, but the Arabs did not bring it into the western world until approximately two hundred years after they brought it to that world their system of simplified numerals and their algebra which latter were indeed limited without the cipher.”
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.139, 1938
