Let us take Model 8, for instance. Searching it for a face we know, we
come to a Light-yellow face away from us. We place this face parallel
with the Light-yellow face on Cube 1, and we see that it has a Green
line going up, and a Green-grey line going to the right from the Buff
point. In these respects it is identical with the Light-yellow face on
Cube 1. But instead of a Blue line coming towards us from the Buff
point, there is a Light-green line. This Light-green line, then, is that
which proceeds in the unknown direction from the Buff point. The line is
turned towards us in this Model 8 in the negative Y direction; and
looking at the model, we see exactly what is formed when in the motion
of the whole cube in the unknown direction, the Light-yellow face is
moved an inch in that direction. It traces out a Salmon cube (_v._ Table
on p. 127), and it has Sea-blue and Deep-green sides below and above,
and Deep-crimson and Dark-grey sides left and right, and Dun and
Light-yellow sides near and far. If we want to verify the correctness of
any of these details, we must turn to Models 1 and 2. What lies an inch
from the Light-yellow square in the unknown direction? Model 2 tells
us, a Dun square. Now, looking at 8, we see that towards us lies a Dun
square. This is what lies an inch in the unknown direction from the
Light-yellow square. It is here turned to face us, and we can see what
lies between it and the Light-yellow square.
CHAPTER IV.
TESSARACT MOVING THROUGH THREE-SPACE. MODELS OF THE SECTIONS.
In order to obtain a clear conception of the higher solid, a certain
amount of familiarity with the facts shown in these models is necessary.
But the best way of obtaining a systematic knowledge is shown hereafter.
What these models enable us to do, is to take a general review of the
subject. In all of them we see simply the boundaries of the tessaract in
our space; we can no more see or touch the tessaract’s solidity than a
plane-being can touch the cube’s solidity.
There remain the four models 9, 10, 11, 12. Model 9 represents what lies
between 1 and 2. If 1 be moved an inch in the unknown direction, it
traces out the tessaract and ends in 2. But, obviously, between 1 and 2
there must be an infinite number of exactly similar solid sections;
these are all like Model 9.
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