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world with colour, scent and sound. It is entirely due to them 

 that an orderly construction of the world is possible ; and for ' 

 that reason they may be called the elementary organisers of 

 the world. None of them ever alters in magnitude and 

 intensity ; and so they furnish us with, as it were, a stable 

 currency, which makes the world secure. This unchanging, 

 stable currency is the ideal denominator, employed in every 

 calculation concerned with measuring the world, whether as 

 regards space or time. 



It will make things clearer for us if, when we consider the 

 three qualities as elements of the mind, we employ a different 

 terminology from what we use when they are considered as 

 world-factors. We have already contrasted the place, as 

 the smallest indivisible world-factor, with the local sign 

 as the mental element ; in the same way we contrast the 

 moment with the moment-sign. It is only when we come 

 to the direction-sign that we find ourselves in a difficulty, 

 because the word " direction " does not contain the idea of a 

 very small entity. But since a series of direction-signs 

 signifies a definite progression in one direction, we can set 

 each direction-sign parallel with a step, and speak of direction- 

 steps. It is only close at hand that we ^re made aware of 

 direction-steps in the dimension of depth by means of direc- 

 tion-signs ; for greater distance we must make use of other 

 aids, such as distance-signs. Therefore it is appropriate in 

 such a case to speak of distance-steps. 



Accordingly we shaU describe -moment, place and step as 

 the three factors of the cosmic order, to which in calculation 

 we must have recourse as the final, indivisible elements. 



Since no one world is applicable generally, the three 

 world-factors have no universal value, but are restricted to 

 the special world of each subject ; and they must not be applied 

 directly from the world of one subject to that of another. In 

 order to make things more intelligible, we have made a kind 



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