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2.
BEARING OF TEL-STRAIGHT
LINE DISCOVERY..
dimensions and if our senses are alert ertough to appreciate the fact that there are also two dimen- sions and one, and nothing as in the case of a point in space, why should there not be four dimensions? That is something in which objects existing besides length, breadth and depth, some other property which would enable them to do things which human beings are not capable of doing, such as for instance appearing ant dis appearing at will-vanishing in fact into the fourth dimension ? ..
the family too, but our senses camet. appreciate them. Anyway when the whole family is together we get the impression of a white light.
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But the Ught that comes from the sun or a candle has, one must sup pòa, đo PRO-Through the fourth dimension, and it may be entirely altered in process. The rays separate in the spectrum may have started as something entirely different. They may be carrying with them ic pressions caught is the fourth dimen alon
Dhamarkaân of the pawRDS DAER. at home, commenting on the new discovery announced at the Royal Society, say that it upsets the cer, tainty of the ages and demands a new philosophy of the Universe they are not exactly talking through their hats for if space and consequently time are not what we thought them
They say that Newton red to to be, then tha existence of a fourth- What is meant may be explained spend hours in a totally a kened dimension, the nature and phenomena in another way. We have said that room. or camera obscura playing of which mankind has not yet it is quite easy to understand surface about with a ray of light let through. grasped, becomes a possibility..
without height. Supposing that the a pinhole and then deflected and Before trying to explain what the world was composed of surface paly separated by prisa and lenses. fourth dimension actually is, says and that everything in it, including Everyone said he wis
after some "The Englishman, one ought to human beings lived on the one plane. thing," but whatever it was he never ́dwell for a moment on what to sane We would then be able to side back told. Since those days the playing mankind is the extraordinary fact wards, and forwards and sideways, but about with prisms and lenses has that great scientists like Sir Oliver as we would not be aware of height or become one of the greatest games in Lodge and Sir William Crookes, a depth we would be ignorant of things physics and the variety and volume pyschologist like the late Mr. William above us or below. We might catch of the literature on optics and the Myers and publicists of such very sight of, or appreciate rather by allied sciences have been enormous. opposite character but of such keen means of some organ, the surface! It is noteworthy that scientists intelligence as Sir A. Conan Doyle of things that came into the same like Sir Oliver Lodge have been and the late Mr. Stead firmly plane with us, but such things would giving out connection with spir believe or have believed immediately disappear if they went itualism that they are at work till their death in the reality up or dowe.
on scientific proof, and the only
of the spiritualistic manifestations Take a photograph, It is an scientific proof that one can think of which to other educated persons are image of things in three dimensions is the capture of an image in some mere tomfoolery. Why should they reduced to two by human cleverness. three dimensional medium. believe, unless they have some kind It is to be noted though, tunt savages It would be a strange thing if there of evidence which has either not been and young children do not know that is anything in spiritualism and if given to the public or which if given a picture represents a thing. Their there is a fourth dimension;, if man- the public have not had sufficient senses inform them of three dimen kind, supposed to have the duller education to understand? It may sions. They will understand the intelligence, were to invent a machine even be that the persons quoted have meaning of a statue or a doll, but it which would put us into communica- culavated some special sense which takes time for them to appreciate tion with another world. It is enables them to appreciate the true that io.a picture depth can be repre necessary to have the "ifs," because, meining of facts, which to others sented by shade and perspective. of course, what has been set out is convey nothing. An incelligence Now, we come to the point It, as merely speculation. However, apecu- working on facts about which others in a photograph three dimensions can lation, followed by experiment and are ignorant may thus arrive at con- be reduced to two and still, exceps to observation is the very soul of clusions which to the others scem brains utterly untrained, be re-science, and if real scientists are as wrong and absurd. It is not suggest cognised, then if by any means four much excited by and interested in ed here of course that Sir Oliver dimensions could be reduced in some the new discovery as the present Lodge is, therefore, necessarily right, kind of image to three we would writer it should not be long before but he will certainly be in a very learn something about the fourth we get trained men working on the strong position if it be presently dimension, not everything, of course, facts and telling us exactly what proved that not only is it possible for but a great deal..
they mean and where they lead to.
a fourth dimension to exist but that
it actually does exist
THE FOURTH DIMENSION. "
CHILL ON THE LIVER
NEARING A SOLUTION. Hitherto, the trouble has been that we bave conceived light to be a series Without going into the highest of wave lengths of different sizes mathematics, the possibility of, the but all moving at the same pace, like time of year. Therefore keep your liver is à frequens cause of sickness at this. existence of a fourth dimension may a family trotting besides its parents, setive, your system clean and your body be proved in the following way, who might be moving quite slowly healthy by the unions! USD of Every human being is aware of the while the kids have to run. But existence of three dimensions that supposing light is nothing of supposition
is length, breadth and height; A the kind. Such a
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