There still remain two sides, those corresponding to the Light-yellow
and Blue-green of Cube 1. What the Blue-green square becomes midway
between Cubes 1 and 2 can be seen on Model 6. The colour of the
last-named is Oak-yellow, and a section parallel to its Blue-green side
is surrounded by Yellow-green, Deep-brown, Dark-grey and Rose lines and
by Green-blue, Smoke, Magenta, and Sea-green points. This is exactly
similar to the right side of Model 9. Lastly, that which becomes of the
Light-yellow side can be seen on Model 8. The section of the cube is a
Salmon square bounded by Deep-crimson, Deep-green, Dark-grey and
Sea-blue lines and by Emerald, Sea-green, Magenta, and Light-green
points.
Thus the models can be used to answer any question about sections. For
we have simply to take, instead of the whole cube, a plane, and the
relation of the whole tessaract to that plane can be told by looking at
the model, which, starting with that plane, stretches from it in the
unknown direction.
We have not as yet settled the colour of the interior of Model 9. It is
that part of the tessaract which is traced out by the interior of Cube
1. The unknown direction starts equally and simultaneously from every
point of every part of Cube 1, just as the up direction starts equally
and simultaneously from every point of a square. Let us suppose that the
cube, which is Light-buff, changes to a Wood-colour directly it begins
to trace the tessaract. Then the internal part of the section between 1
and 2 will be a Wood-colour. The sides of the Model 9 are of the
greatest importance. They are the colour of the six cubes, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, and 8. The colours of 1 and 2 are wanting, viz. Light-buff and
Sage-green. Thus the section between 1 and 2 can be found by its wanting
the colours of the Cubes 1 and 2.
Looking at Models 10, 11, and 12 in a similar manner, the reader will
find they represent the sections between Cubes 3 and 4, Cubes 5 and 6,
and Cubes 7 and 8 respectively.
CHAPTER V.
REPRESENTATION OF THREE-SPACE BY NAMES, AND IN A PLANE.
We may now ask ourselves the best way of passing on to a clear
comprehension of the facts of higher space. Something can be effected by
looking at these models; but it is improbable that more than a slight
sense of analogy will be obtained thus. Indeed, we have been trusting
hitherto to a method which has something vicious about it--we have been
trusting to our sense of what _must_ be. The plan adopted, as the
serious effort towards the comprehension of this subject, is to learn a
small portion of higher space. If any reader feel a difficulty in the
foregoing chapters, or if the subject is to be taught to young minds, it
is far better to abandon all attempt to see what higher space _must_ be,
and to learn what it _is_ from the following chapters.
NAMING A PIECE OF SPACE.
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