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For further details on this point, consult Mabilleau, Victor Hugo, 2nd part, chaps. II, III, IV. Renouvier, in the book devoted to the poet, asserts that "on account of his aptitude for representing to himself the details of a figure, order and position in space, beyond any present sensation," Victor Hugo could have become a mathematician of the highest order.
J. Darmesteter, in Récéjac, Essai sur les fondements de la connaissance mystique, p. 124. In such notions may perhaps be best found the genesis of the present superstitions in regard to "lucky" and "unlucky" numbers, like the number 13, which have such persistence. See Part Two, chapter II. Groos, Die Spiele der Thiere, pp. 308-312. Mabilleau, op. cit., p. 132.
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