A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension)

our reason would seek to reconcile these contradictions. If the idea of a fourth dimension reconciled them, we should develop a sense of higher space.

THE FOURTH DIMENSION DEFINED

The expression, the fourth dimension, offers a shock to the mind accustomed to practical handling of matter, because all our experiences of measurement or dimensionality are ultimately founded upon matter possessing but three dimensions, so that we have great difficulty in accepting the reality of a direction not contained in our space or our matter but definitely at right angles to every line that can be drawn within the matter and space which contain all our ordinary experiences. Our idea of space is partial, and like many another of our ideas, needs modification to accommodate it to fuller knowledge. What we think of as space is more probably only some part of space made perceptible. It may be that our space bears a relation to space in its totality analogous to that which the images cast by a magic lantern An early type of image projector. bear to the wall on which these images are made to appear—a wall with solidity, thickness, extension in other and more directions than those embraced within the wavering circle of light which would correspond to our sense of the cosmos. In other words, perhaps that which we think of as space is only so much of it as our limited sensory mechanism is able to apprehend.

For knowledge arises from consciousness, and consciousness everywhere and always is conditioned by the vehicle of physical perception. The par-