But the determination of the status of these formulae is by no means settled by this admission.

The independence of time and space is an unquestioned presupposition of the orthodox thought which has produced the orthodox formulae.

With this presupposition and given the absolute points of one absolute space, the orthodox formulae are immediate deductions.

Accordingly, these formulae are presented to our imaginations as facts which cannot be otherwise, time and space being what they are.

The orthodox formulae have therefore attained to the status of necessities which cannot be questioned in science.