¶ Up and Down Sequence
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Up and Down Sequence:
"I have questioned many scientists and have never heard one deny that he realistically sees the Sun set, which is to say that he sees the Sun ‘going down.’ All scientists as yet use the words up and down. These words are now meaningless for they were invented by man to accommodate his sense of the world stretching away to infinity as a plane around him, to which he is perpendicular. Because he has thought of the world that way for two million years, he goes on cerebrating spontaneously that of course all the perpendiculars to the world plane are parallel to one another and all the parallel perpendicular lines point in two opposite directions: ‘upward’ or ‘downward.’ But all scientists agree that there are no regions of the Universe which are uniquely ‘up’ or ‘down’ and also that none of the perpendiculars to a sphere are parallel to one another.
"But, ask the scientists annoyedly, ‘What else can I say?’
“The answer was found by world-around flying aviators who ‘come in for a landing’ and go out to fly their courses at greater altitudes in the world surrounding skyocean. In, out, and around are the words that indicate conceptually all our”
