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Quote: Pythagoreans saw numbers as the primary natures, the elements of all things; including justice, soul, mind, musical modes, relations, heaven
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… the so-called Pythagoreans, the first to be absorbed … believed that its principles are the principles of … to see in numbers, rather than in fire, … for one sort of modification of numbers … is justice; another, soul and mind … Musical modes and relations, too, they saw in … and numbers were for them the primary natures. … all things, and the whole heaven to be … Google-1 Google-2
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