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Along these lines, Miller[1] (1986: pp. 41, 5) noted that “Images of harmony… invite us to participate in a reality we normally ignore and draw us back into the primitive immediacy of sensory experience to commune with a divinity that shapes our ends.” But they may be authoritarian (viz. the Pythagoreans): “Images of harmony… tend to silence debates, for they are essentially undebatable.”

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  1. ↑ James L. Miller, Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Toronto: 1986), pp. 41, 5.