Alfred W. Crosby Quote

What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an I am and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.

The Measure of Reality, Part I, Chapter 6 (p. 122), Cambridge University Press. 1997