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     When trying new ways,  one may well find it necessary
to use a strange language.  This is certainly the case for
the  student trying for the first time the way of analytic
thought  with  the assistance of symbolic  tools  such  as
algebra, calculus, and operator notations. The language is
strange,   and it takes time to becomes accustomed to  it,
and  to  become  genuinely aware of the  relationships  to
which it points.

     The  ensymbolment of mathematics is used in  pointing
to realities of which the mathematician is aware. The non-
mathematician  is unaware of the realities and  unfamiliar
with  the symbolism of mathematics.  To such a person  the
symbolism  of mathematics is a strange language.  Yet with
patience  and with attention to the strange  language  and
the  realities to which it points,  the seeker may  become
aware of the reality of the relation-ships  characteristic
of quantitative analysis.

     The  scientist  who is familiar with the language  of
mathematics may be rather unfamiliar with the language  of
intimate  relationships and of the realities to which that
language  seeks to point.  One can do only a finite number
of things in a finite life.  If one's attention is focused
mostly  on quantitative analysis there may not be time  to
focus  on  authentic meeting.  If that be  one's  personal
history,   then  one  may well be  relatively  unaware  of
authentic meeting between real persons.   The language  of
dialogue   and  its  symbols  will  appear  as  a  strange
language.

     Scientists  who  are grasped by a desire  to  educate
their students rather than driven by a compulsion to train
students  will find themselves trying new ways and using a
strange language in pointing to realities which they  come
to recognize as significant. Other scientist are likely to
regard  such  behavior  as perverted,   and  estrange  the
physicists who participate in it.

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