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But before doing so I would point out that already we begin to see our way a little. We can understand for instance that the fact of a Fourth dimension of space being unknown and inconceivable to us, is no proof that it does not exist. We have seen that a Third dimension would be equally unknown and inconceivable to a being limited in the manner described above; although we know that a third dimension does exist.

We have only to suppose that analogous limitations obtain in our own case to see that a Fourth dimension might well exist of which we would still be unaware.

We must, for instance, suppose that we have no sense organs facing that way and that we are prevented from moving in that direction by some circumstance analogous to the smooth sheet on which we supposed the plane being to live. The plane being would think that he could see all round his plane objects although we know that he could not really do so, and similarly our conviction that we can see all round our solid objects may be an illusion.