¶ Four-dimensional Reality
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“A plurality of points became the ‘building blocks’ with which the mathematicians of the day before microscopes imaginatively constructed their lines. ‘Lines’ became the one-dimensional substanceless ‘logs’ which they floored together in their two-dimensional, planar, thicknessless ‘rafts.’ Finally they stacked these planar rafts one-upon-another to build a ‘solid’ three-dimensional ‘cube,’ but having none of the essential characteristics of four-dimensional reality–i.e., having neither temperature, weight, nor longevity.”
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