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45 HEN the ship came up the harbor The New York reporters Hastened to assail me with questions. For some curious reason They were eager for my views On the Fourth Dimension, Which was then (So I heard afterward) A subject of violent discussion In the Sunday Magazine Sections. Rather pleased by their interest in such matters, I said, in all good faith, The Fourth Dimension is Supra-Spatial: It bears the same relation to Space That Space does to Flatness. It may be said to be Continuity, Or, speaking poetically, It is the Shadow That Time casts on Eternity. But the high-spirited City Editors, Finding these modest thoughts of mine Insufficiently nimble, Invented others.