¶ Up and Down Sequence (2)
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'Witness that they all use the words ‘up’ and 'down. They speak about ‘Getting down to Earth,’ ‘the wide, wide world,’ and always spell the Earth with a small ‘e’ because it is simply the stuff under our feet, 'down here, ’ which stretches away laterally to infinity.
‘It is not surprising that we continue now to start our children’s geometry-- meaning world measuring-- with plane geometry. This, however, is intellectually devastating, and constitutes the parting of the ways with one road leading into the scholar’s ‘pure’ mathematics, and the other continuing as the reality, which disagrees with all that is found by physics, mathematics, and chemistry to be the natural orderliness of Universe. The ‘practical’ man who was disgruntled by the awkward misconceptions of mathematics is one who is so dull as not to be bothered by the measurable discrepancies and keeps on ‘brilliantly and courageously’ doing all the short-sighted, expedient ‘things’ which, applauded by the most powerfully advantaged selfish, are so swiftly consigning man to extinction as ‘unfit’ for survival in the vast reality of the Universe of weightless, invisible, omni-interaccommodative generalized principles, which are’
