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THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE; OR, THE SCEPTIC REFUTED
a line must have length without breadth,
and a curved line may certainly have breadth,
for it need not lie in one plane.!
M. True. |
5S. Hence we may conclude that the line of
demarcation between A and zot-A is many
and not one. Now an universe is that which
turns to one,” when truly considered. Our
line does the reverse of this, for it appeared
one at first, and split up on examination.
M. Exactly ; but that is where I have you
in a corner.
S. Dollar wheat !
wheat !
AZ. It is the ‘reverse’ which does you.?
If you turn a man _ fourth-dimensionally
round, his hemispherical ganglia will prove
interchangeable ?
S. No doubt, for they are symmetrical.
M. His polygonal fissures are identical
with themselves?
S. I admit it, for they are ambidextrous.
_A/, His hypertrophied constrictor Cunni
will feel nothing?
S. No; it is medial.
Af. Then how is he changed?
Dollar wheat ! - Dollar
1 The mathematical proof of this is simple.
A surface is composed of an infinite number
of parallel straight lines touching each other.
Now for parallel straight lines place a single
convoluted chortoid with a parabolic direction
of r#-94 9-7 At all the foci will be
(2 --1)(2+m+1) /-1
(p+v) +sin®-*cosa—
Now since #+17 is in this case unity and m=n,
we have—
fc{tan 6-Ovcos(7+a) a/ —micsinOe O-€ ark
j fe cos 0+ sin 8) [7 tan 0+72 sec 0]
If the chortoid lie in one plane this expres-
‘sion=O;; but if not, it = sin @~* cos 67 ?, @
being the angle subtended by the common arc
of the original curve, by Halley’s theorem,
ellipses of the form
or sin —, in which case the expression is unreal,
w
and may be neglected.
2 Two or more things cannot form part of
any one thing, in so far as they remain two,
Considered in relation to that of which they
form part, they become fractions.
3 Cf. A. B, Douglas, Reminiscences.
S. Fourth-dimensionally ; no more.
M. Yet his right optic nerve will see
through his left eye?
S. Of course.
Af. Then of an event, an argument, a
dialectic euhemerism, protoplasmic or blasto-
dermic?
S. I see what you mean. You would say
that duality irresolvable into unity has no
parallel in the regions of pure intelligence,
seeks no corollary from the intuitive organic
reactions of the hyperbolic cells ? 1
M. I would.
S. The devil you would !
M. I would. Our line becomes single?
S. In the higher sense.
Mf, So that the Mind of the Father riding
on the subtle guiders got it right after all?
S. Pretty right.
M. And all things are divisible
Three, not into Two?
S. Into A, zot-A, and the dividing line.
M. Though the Reason of Man _ has
boggled often enough at this, the intuition of
Woman has always perceived it.
5S. But she has gone too far, placing the
importance of that dividing middle above all
into
other things in earth or heaven. We hold
the balance fair and firm.
M. (glad). How blessed is this day,
Scepticus !
S. (Concedine the point, and catching
the glow). Let us make a night of it!
M. (Enjoying his triumph). We will.
Do not forget twilight !.
S. (2 holy rapture).
cus, into Three !
M, (Ditto, only more so). Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost.
S. (fn the trance called Nerodha-Sama-
patti). As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end.
M. (Ditto, after an exhilarating switch-
back ride through the Eight High Trances).
AMEN.
Into Three, Mysti-
1 Both colloid, caudate, and epicycloid, of
course.