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PSYCHISM AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
legs, and to be reflected in all the directions of threedimensional space by a suitable four-dimensional reflector-as we did with a conical mirror in the twodimensional space: -It is evident that it would have behaved exactly as the light Zollner observed did behave, and the direction of the beam could only have been conceived by a three-dimensional being as going in all directions at once,
To sum up: no three-dimensional light could have behaved as this light did behave; and a four-demensional light would have behaved exactly as this light behaved; the conclusion obviously is, that the light observed by Zollner was a four-dimensional light,
To return to a point we touched on a moment ago, We dealt with a perpendicular to a line, and with a perpendicular to a plane: by carrying this idea on, it will be evident that, in four-dimensional space, a perpendicular may be drawn to a solid, and the beam is Zollner's experiment was actually perpendicular to the cubical, or approxiinately cubical, room in which the experiment took place.
To go back a little: all the sensory organs of the body, the retina, tympanum, palate, or skin, are surfaces, that is, two-dimensional: but objects appear to us three-dimensional: further, our mental conceptions are four-dimensional. Let us illustrate this: we cannot see inside a closed opaque box, a four-dimensional being could not only see inside such a box, but could
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