“Pythagoras, in the sacred discourse, calls number "the ruler of forms and ideas." But Philolaus, "the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns." And {{w|Hippasus}} and all those... under the probation of the quinquennial silence... "the first exemplar of the mundane fabric, and the judiciary instrument of its artificer."”

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