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E-book Title: The Time Machine
Author: Herbert George Wells
Book Description: I
The Time Human (for so it wish be convenient to speak of
him) was exposition a abstruse matter to us. His grey eyes
shone and twinkled, and his normally pale face was flushed and
animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the
incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles
that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his
patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat
upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere once
thought roams graciously
free of the trammels of precision. And
he put it to us in this way--marking the points with a lean
forefinger--as we sat and idly
loved
his earnestness over
this new contradiction (as we thought it:) and his fecundity.
`You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one
or two ideas that are about universally accepted. The geometry,
for instance, they instructed you at school is based on a
misconception.'
`Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?'
aforesaid Filby, an contentious person with red hair.
`I do not mean to ask you to accept thing
without reasonable
ground for it. You wish shortly admit as more as I need from you.
You cognize of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness
NIL, has no real existence. They instructed you that? Neither has
a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.'
`That is all right,' aforesaid the Psychologist.
`Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube
have a real existence.'
`There I object,' aforesaid Filby. `Of course a solid body may
exist. All real things--'
`So most folk think. But wait a moment. Can an
Instant cube exist?'
`Don't follow you,' aforesaid Filby.
`Can a cube that makes not last for any time at all, have a real
existence?'
Filby became pensive. `Clearly,' the Time Human proceeded,
`any real body must have extension in FOUR directions: it must
have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and--Duration. But through a
natural frailty of the flesh, which I wish explain to you in a
moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are actually four
dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a
fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal
distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter,
because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in
one direction on
the latter from the beginning to the end of
our lives.'More... | 
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