It was found, also, that the shape of the brain, at the foundation-point, was of the same general form or shape as the earth on which we dwell; that is to say, an oblate spheroid, whence, by experiment, it was deduced that such section of a figure, oblately spheroidal, was also the very best form of a magic mirror. Such a figure having two mathematically true and absolutely certain foci, so that a stream of magnetism being thrown upon one focus slid along the surface and returned to the centre of the other focus, from the centre of the fore-brain, thus completing a magnetic circuit and rendering the portion of brain in the line of contact exceedingly active, by reason of its increased magnetic play and motion of the brain-particles there situate.
‘think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region of space – a direction, as has been said, toward which we can never point– but as a principle of growth, of change, a measure of relations which cannot be expressed in terms of length, breadth and thickness’
Elementary parallelism: a formal decomposition, linear elements following eachother like parallels and distorting the object. The object is completely stretched out, as if elastic. The lines follow eachother in parallels, while changing subtly to form movement, or the form of the object in question.