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which we now recognise as man-made are characterised 

 by continuity, whereas the laws to which the mind as 

 yet lays no claim are characterised by atomicity. The 

 quantum theory with its avoidance of fractions and 

 insistence on integral units seems foreign to any scheme 

 which we should be likely subconsciously to have im- 

 posed as a frame for natural phenomena. Perhaps our 

 final conclusion as to the world of physics will resemble 

 Kronecker's view of pure mathematics. 



u God made the integers, all else is the work of man."* 



* Die ganzen Zahlen hat Gott gemacht; alles anderes ist Menschen- 

 werk. 



