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19. The memory containeth also the reasons and innumerable laws of
numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any sense of the body
impressed, seeing they have neither colour, nor sound, nor taste,
nor smell, nor sense of touch. I have heard the sound of the words by
which these things are signified when they are discussed; but the
sounds are one thing, the things another. For the sounds are one
thing in Greek, another in Latin; but the things themselves are
neither Greek, nor Latin, nor any other language. I have seen the
lines of the craftsmen, even the finest, like a spider's web; but
these are of another kind, they are not the images of those which the
eye of my flesh showed me; he knoweth them who, without any idea
whatsoever of a body, perceives them within himself. I have also
observed the numbers of the things with which we number all the senses
of the body; but those by which we number are of another kind, nor are
they the images of these, and therefore they certainly are. Let him
who sees not these things mock me for saying them; and I will pity
him, whilst he mocks me.
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