Shall it move first to some position that is not the next?
Or shall it in despair refuse to move at all?
Evidently there is either something wrong with this doctrine of the infinite divisibility of space, or there is something wrong with our understanding of it, if such absurdities as these refuse to be cleared away.

Let us see where the trouble lies.
26.

WHAT IS REAL SPACE ?--It is plain that men are willing to make a number of statements about space, the ground for making which is not at once apparent.

It is a bold man who will undertake to say that the universe of matter is infinite in extent.

We feel that we have the right to ask him how he knows that it is.