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Men understand more easily what they can see, touch, and hear--that is, images, forms, and pictures--in short, symbols. These are the idols honoured by simpler minds. But when they develop their minds sufficiently they become able to think in terms of simple arithmetic progressing to the laws of geometry, and from algebra on to higher mathematics.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 115