Four-Dimensional Vistas

The fourth dimension is not somewhere beyond reach, Claude Fayette Bragdon insists: it is “here—in us, and all about us,” at right angles to every direction we know.

Writing amid the upheavals of the early twentieth century, Bragdon asks whether familiar ideas of space and possibility are prisons built by common sense. A flying machine would once have seemed a miracle; now, he argues, the familiar can dull our wonder even as new marvels press upon us. Reason, mathematics and intuition may open a way into an “undiscovered country” beyond the limits of ordinary experience—but it is no simple journey, and the mind must first learn to question what it thinks it knows. What might become possible when we stop trusting common sense to define the limits of the real?

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