AtD - Anarchy vs Terror Spoiler pg 78

[Monte Davis]

> > There's some basic rules for magic, and one is "be
> > silent". Knowing the name of a power ...
> 
> Cf. Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea  ...

This carries right across the magic <--> science <--> technology
borderlands. William James (very much iin the spiritualism - Gottingen -
Pavlov swirl of things during the period of AtD):

""Many were the ideal prototypes of rational order: teleological and
esthetic ties between things... as well as logical and mathematical
relations. The most promising of these things at first were of course the
richer ones, the more sentimental ones. The baldest and least promising were
mathematical ones; but the history of the latter's application is a history
of steadily advancing successes, while that of the sentimentally richer ones
is of relative sterility and failure. Take those aspects of phenomena which
interest you as a human being most... and barren are all your results. Call
the things of nature as much as you like by sentimental moral and esthetic
names, no natural consequences follow from the naming... But when you give
the things mathematical and mechanical names and call them so many solids in
just such positions, describing just such paths with just such velocities,
all is changed... Your 'things' realize the consequences of the names by
which you classed them."