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Psychism and the Fourth
Dimension. AT the present day, though science bas added to its
former treasures many things rich and: rare, its wildest admirer would not claim for science a wealth of poetic and imaginative conceptions.
And yet science has one veritable romance, the Fourth Dimension.
This conception,-at one time an object of wild enthusiasm, at another, the recipient of unmeasured scorn, - arose, it appears, from the analogy, of pure mathematics, Matiematicians, besides dealing with the square and cube of a number or a quantity, have, from the remotest times, brought the fourth, fifth, and higher powers also into their conceptions.
Now, while the number, its square and cube, have their visible counterparts in nature, --in the line, the surface, and the solid ,--the fourth and higher powers seem to have been long treated as mere hendy expressions with no raal representatives.
Recently, however, the idea has been mooted that at least the fourth power has its real counterpart in nature and the properties of a fourth dimension have even been analysed and discussed.
We have not been able to discover the originator of this idea, nor whether or not it was known to the
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