SPACE 33 



Through its belief in the absolute existence of an objective 

 world, physics has come to a deadlock. It overlooks the 

 fact that the only realities it recognises^namely, the atom 

 and its motion in space— are subjective qualities,, which^ 

 like all qualities, permit of only a limited application. The 

 atom as the primary element of matter, which, in its very 

 nature, is discontinuous, is referable to the local sign,, and 

 motion, which is continuous, to the direction-sign.- Both 

 these qualities have meaning and justification just so long as 

 we are dealing with changes in space. If we tried to apply 

 them, for instance, to the musical scale, which is not arranged 

 with relation to space, the result would be sheer nonsense. 

 We transfer even the source of sound to space ; and yet no 

 one would take a symphony for an objective phenomenon hav- 

 ing any reality apart from the subject. It is the same with 

 colours : although one coloured surface can irradiate another 

 through space, just as a sound can awaken an echo, and 

 physical changes thereby appear in space, yet these spatial 

 processes tell us nothing about the laws according to which 

 the qualities will intermingle. 



The peculiarity of colours as opposed to sounds lies merely 

 in this, that even when they remain separate from one another 

 in space (in two contiguous surfaces), yet they influence one 

 another according to the non-spatial laws of their affinity. 

 Physics will not hear of such a thing ; but biology may, for 

 why should not two spatial impressions influence one another 

 within the same subject ? 



SPATIAL VISION 



Hitherto we have confined ourselves to considering the 

 sjnnphonic relations that are discoverable in space as we see 

 it. We turn now to the symphony of space-magnitudes, as it 

 reveals itself to the eye. 



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