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1  'Not exactly,' said the Medical Man.
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2  'I have not,' said the Provincial Mayor.
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3  'That is all right,' said the Psychologist.
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4  'Still they could move a little up and down,' said the Medical Man.
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5  But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea.
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6  This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer.
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7  There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
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8  Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.
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9  But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact.
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10  There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
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11  Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it.
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12  'Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,' continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness.
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13  The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.
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14  'I think so,' murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words.
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15  Scientific people,' proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.
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16  Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
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17  That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.
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