M&D--Equations, SPOILER

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Paul M. observes:

""For if each star is little more a Mathematickal Point, located upon
the Hemisphere of Heaven by right Ascension and Declination, then all
the Stars, taken together, tho' innumerable, must like any other set
of points, in turn represent some single gigantick Equation, to the
mind of God, as straitforward as, say, the Equation of a Sphere, - to
us unreadable, incalcuable."
Perhaps even more so if we consider Mason's suspicions of madness in
Masleylenes 'Sermons upon the Unknown' ("Maskylene is the pure type of
one who would transcend the Earth,- making him, for Mason, a walking
cautionary Tale.") with the Rev'd Cherrycokes description of his own
'insanity' as "...One of those moments Hindoos and Chinamen are
ever said to be having""


This sounds even more like a comment on the contemporary attempt to find
a Grand Unified Field Theory that will Explain the Universe.  There are
those who say it can't be done--it's not unlikely that TRP agrees!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)