Paul Foster Case

“Anyone may reasonably admire the decade for the following reason, that it contains within itself a nature which is at the same time devoid of intervals and capable of containing them. Now that nature which han no connection with intervals in beheld in a point alone; but that which ir beheld under three apperances, a line, a supercicies, and a solid. For that which is bounded by two ponit is a line; and that which has two domensions or intervals is a superficies, the line being extended by the addition of breadth; and thah which has three intervals is a solid, lenght and breath having taken to themselves the addition of depth. And these three neture content; for she has not engendered more intervals or dimentions tha these three. And the archetypal numers which are the models of these three are, of the point the unit, of the line the number two, of the superficies the number three, and the soid the number four, the combination of which, that is to say one, and two, and three, and four, completes the decade.”
― Paul Foster Case