The problem of ugliness and evil would seem at first thought to be totally unrelated to the subject of space hyperdimensionality, but there is at least a symbolical relation.  This was suggested to the author by the endeavor of two friends whose interests were pre-eminently mathematical to discover what certain four-dimensional figures would look like in three-dimensional space.  They found that in a great number of cases these cross-sections, when thus isolated, revealed little of the symmetry and beauty of their higher-dimensional archetypes.  It is clear that a beautiful form of our world, traversing a plane, would show nothing of its beauty to the planeman, who lacked the power of perceiving it entire; for the sense of beauty is largely a matter of co-ordination.  We give the names of evil, chance, fate, ugliness, to those aspects of life and of the world that we fail to perceive in their true relations, in regard to which our power of correlation breaks down.  Yet we often find that in the light of fuller knowledge or subsequent experience, the fortune which seemed evil was really good fortune in the making, that the chance act or encounter was too momentous in its consequences to be regarded as other than ordained.

The self-element plays a large part in our idea of good and evil, ugliness and beauty.  “All things are as they seem to all.”  Desire of her will make any woman beautiful, and fear will exercise an absolute inhibition upon the aesthetic sense.  As we recede in time from events, they more and more emancipate themselves from the tyranny of our personal prejudices and predilections, and we are able to perceive them with greater clarity, more as they appear from the standpoint of higher time and higher space.  “Old, unhappy, far-off things, and battles long ago” lose their poignancy of pain and take on the poignancy of beauty.  The memory of suffering endured is often the last thing from which we would be parted, while humdrum happiness we are quite willing to forget.  Because we realize completely only in retrospect, it may well be that the present exists chiefly for the sake of the future.  Then let the days come with veiled faces, accept their gifts whose value we are so little able to appraise!  There is a profound and practical truth in Christ’s saying, “Resist not evil.”  Honor this truth by use, and welcome destiny in however sinister a guise.

THE IMMANENT DIVINE

In the fact of the limited nature of our space perceptions is found a connecting link between materialism and idealism.  For, passing deeper and deeper in our observation of the material world, that which we at first felt as real passes away to become but the outward sign of a reality infinitely greater, of which our realities are appearances only, and we become convinced of the existence of an immanent divine. “In Him we live and move and have our being.”  Our space is but a limitation of infinite “room