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IN THE HIGH HEAVENS.

reasonings that we can make with our intellect, can ever demonstrate that the three angles of a triangle may not as a matter of fact actually differ from two right angles by some such amount as, let us say, the millionth part of a second. This does no violence to our consciousness, while it provides the needed loophole for escape from the illogicalities and the contradictions into which our attempted conceptions of space otherwise and us.