Bateson 18-9: "[T]here have been, and still are, in the world many different and even contrasting epistemologies which have been alike in stressing an ultimate unity and, although this is less sure, which have also stressed the notion that ultimate unity is aesthetic"
"quantitative sceience" has a "great authority" but Bateson hopes that this authority "may be insufficient to deny an ultimate unifying beauty"
19: "the loss of the sense of aesthetic unity was, quite simply, an epistemological mistake"