Abstract
“EVERYTHING is Number!” Thus spake the son of Mnesarchus. Ever since these words were uttered, not only have philosophers vied with each other to find a correct interpretation of them, but also the world has turned its back to the fact-finding approach to human affairs and still enjoys the rhetorical approach of numerology. Pythagoras was thus the founder of esoterism and arithmosophy as well as of science and philosophy. If the number of followers of any particular doctrine are to be taken as a criterion of its value, then esoterism and arithmosophy may well be given the palm.
Numerology.
By Prof. E. T. Bell. Pp. vii + 187. (Baltimore, Md.: The Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1933.) 11s. 6d.
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GREENWOOD, T. Numerology. Nature 133, 80–81 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133080a0
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