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Page 188 our point of view, we can look at the back and the front equally well; or at the outside and inside of each of the sides. Our line of sight is, therefore, perpendicular to all the sides, as we saw that the fourth dimension must be.

We can do this, because our cube in Fig. 12 is not really solid. A four-dimensional man could do it with a solid cube. And we can do in thought what he could do in fact. For imagine a solid cube before your mind's eye. You can look direct at the front of it. You can look equally straight at its back or at any side, without either moving your own imagined position or the cube's position. This is four-dimensional. In the same way you can imagine a locked box, and at the same time imagine the inside of it, without thinking of it as open. You can imagine taking a diamond necklace out of it, while it remains locked. This is four-dimensional robbery, and would be easy to a four-dimensional bank-robber. Our safes would lie open to him for all their locks. Draw a square on paper. It represents a two-dimensional room. A two-dimensional man could leave it only by going along the surface of the paper to one edge. Put your finger on the paper within the square. It represents the apparition of a three-dimensional being in a two-dimensional room. Raise your finger. The apparition has vanished without approaching the boundaries of the room. Similarly, a four-dimensional being could appear in the center of a three-dimensional room, and disappear as suddenly; just as you can think of yourself in one room and then in another, without having to think of yourself as approaching and going through the doors. This is four-dimensional.
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Here is a two-dimensional knot (Fig. 13). [1] A two-dimensional man could only tie it by rotating half the string in a circle, thus bringing the two ends together. We can tie it by simply folding part of the string over without bringing the ends together. We could also tie such a knot on an endless cord -- a circle of string. Similarly, a four-dimensional man could tie one of our three-dimensional knots without bringing the ends of the string together; or he could tie knots on an endless cord -- say a ring of leather formed by cutting out the

Figure 13
center of a disk of leather. The fact that a four-dimensional being could tie such knots, take things from closed boxes, write inside closed box-slates, appear and vanish, suggested to Zllner of Leipzig that four-dimensional beings do do these things -- at seances.

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