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Psychism and the Fourth :
Dimension. AT the present day, though science has added to its W 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 roniance, 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. Mathematicians, 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 handy expressions with no real 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 his idea, nor whether or not it was known to the mathematicians of ancient Greece and India. That
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