Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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“Numbers and combinations of numbers are used in the sacred writings to convey instruction under a figurative guise, and ignorance of numbers often shuts out the reader from this instruction.” —St. Augustine,[1] De doctrina christiana, II.xvi.25

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  1. St. Augustine, De doctrina christiana, II.xvi.25.