Word: space
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...covered with tiles, which will provide working places for eighty students. Each student is given an iron box in which to keep his instruments. These boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space is occupied by one large room, which is to contain the meteorites and other specimens. The room will be fitted up later with plate glass show cases...
...particular, Space and Time can be shown to be more Forms of our Human sense-consciousness, and to have no relation to Things in Themselves. The unknowable real world without us exists therefore neither in space nor in time. We know not how this world exists at all; we only recognize that it exists...
...nevertheless be sure that our world of seeming things in space and time must conform to rigid laws, such as the law of causation. For our active understanding, in thinking our world, is bound by its own nature, in order to preserve as it were our very sanity (or, as Kant would say, the Unity of our self-consciousness), to regard all observed facts as conforming to laws. Yet these laws of Nature, which science studies, are the very creation of our own understanding acting upon the data of our senses. Such laws are not the laws of an unknowable...
...ignorant as we are of all absolute truth, confined as we are for all theoretical knowledge to the seeming world of sense and understanding in space and time, we are yet morally bound to postulate that the real world of the things in themselves is a Divine Moral Order; i. e., we are and absolute Moral Order were known to us to exist...
...French contributes as the long story of the number an article entitled How Jack Saved the Manager. The story is interesting but might better have been put into half the space it occupies...