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physics, greeting the return to the unseen with a tribal cheer:
Once the space-element or point had lost its last
persistent relic of visualness and, instead of being
represented to the eye as a cut in co-ordinate lines, was
defined as a group of three independent numbers, there
was no longer any inherent objection to replacing the
number 3 by the general number n. The notion of
dimension was radically changed. It was no longer a
matter of treating the properties of a point metrically
with reference to its position in a visible system, but of
representing the entirely abstract properties of a number-
group. . .
“Entirely abstract” means the nonvisual resonating
interplay of the audile-tactile by which electricity and radio