12 Abstract Design, Harmony, and Fourth Dimensional Control
2Repeating somewhat, let us review what has just been said. Europe as usual, is leading the world tremendously in design, but it is merely designing surfaces. Inspired with much of the new truth, the inspirational, artistic world is doing this fine new design, revoking for a new era of characteristic expression but all they can do, unfortunately, as artists, is to make new three-dimensional geometric combinations. There is no limit to this any more than there is to musical composition. Industry is today centralized. It produces en masse for individualism and, therefore, all that is practical and useful is produced on a gigantic scale, world encompassing, hitherto little thought of and still apparently unperceived by the world in general.
3 Your greatest artists today are designing for mass production in print, fabric and even radio, etc. Industry makes possible one more dimension in design, fourth dimension. In all design today we use synthetic materials, or recomposition of elements, to perform best a given function. A material before it reaches its final lodging, passes through many hands, and over much space, and therefore to be efficient and pleasing, must have no unnecessary weight. When it reaches its destiny, how long will it stay there? For the time limit of its existence. The fourth dimension is time. In the composition of synthetic materials, the fourth dimension is the most important. There are no materials which nature has not mixed with others. To use them today the elements which fulfill the function, debunking them, as it were; removing weight, and combining them again with materials whose longevity or fourth dimension is equivalent to their own. Don’t mix bronze and wood in design. Wood and paper, yes, brass and glass yes.
4 In consideration of the fact that no matter can exist without time, else it would not exist; and that time dimension is the most important dimension of all matter; and that all our industry is but a time saving institution; that all sport is but a time controlling demonstration; and that all art is but an harmonic division, composition, and projection of time, and that we are fast approaching a time standard (men dollar hours) instead of a gold standard; and that inasmuch as everything is balanced, all these time creations are balanced by credit or faith, as opposed to material coin exchange, which is becoming more and more an antiquated practice and confined only to inconsequentials and the lower classes of trade. In full consideration of this new economic law must the new era home be designed and its plans of industrialization evolved.
5 When it is clearly understood, by a proper study of the fourth dimension, that all time or temporal matter has but one scale applicable to all the various scales which we now know as color, sound, etc., for in reality sounds, colors, etc., are merely registrations through different nervous systems of the same temporal characteristics, be they hard, rough, sharp, round, smooth, high or low, etc., then will it be realized that with proper fourth dimensional consideration of all the discords, that may disturb the senses, these may be reduced to a minimum. On the other hand by the same fourth dimensional consideration is it possible to provide harmony of presentation in all the material design to which the nerves are subjugated; to the end that the abstract spirit, freed from too constant contemplation of material prosaicness, may at last attain harmonization of individualism by virtue of industry or completely segregated and controlled materialism.
6 Time and faith are both abstract. As people become more individualistic their lives and contacts become more abstract, though ever greater in volume and distance. They more constantly deal by wire, letter, wireless, or multiple letter. Almost any well-known speaker today rarely orates to his company without the presence of a microphone, for clarification of his speech to those visibly present. It would seem that we are possibly approaching a time when the distinguished guest might be spared the actual useless meal and address his audience by telephone instead of attending the banquet in Brownville or Greenville. Relative time, distance or space is constantly reduced.
7 In due consideration, then, of this time dimension, it is evident that progressive design must be time saving. Time saving is accomplished by segregation of functions. As functions are segregated and individually solved, involves exceedingly light weight materials. This saves in every handling from original source to ultimate disposition. (Incidentally this deweighting process of material things goes hand in hand with the ‘‘Debunking’’ process of the mind.)
8 As time is saved by progress, and time is in everything, all material products of industry must necessarily become lighter and lighter. It is worthy of note that this will be definitely reflected in the mirror of economic progress, the stock market, provided the time saving progress is balanced by the increase in good faith, and may be taken advantage of by those who intelligently acquaint themselves of this fact. Judge life and industrial progress by their measure of these tokens;- GOOD FAITH and TIME OR WEIGHT SAVING. When these two are well balanced, progress may be further measured by the harmony of design as opposed to prosaicness (harmony is service, artistic appeal, etc.).
9 There are the very definite abstract conceptions: First, that all matter is of globular, radiating form, and that all dimension is fourth dimensional or radiating spheres, which radiate for a certain period of time. The time dimension being the distance from the center of the sphere to the greatest surface attained by radial measurement. There are the radiating spheres whose wave lengths are attuned to our wave length receptivity of consciousness or nervous system of antennae, which is our conscious zone of human vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, etc. It is through a definite perception of the scientifically recognizable characteristics of these wave lengths within the conscious spheres that scientists have shaped the rules of the truths thereby revealed. This in turn has made possible scientific exploration into the abstract or unconscious spheres, which have made possible abstract discoveries, such as the radio. For example, a human shouts aloud, creating radiating spheres of sound. There is a definite distance away from that human at which the spheres die out, or the temporal matter, which is sound in this case, has ceased. A cross sectional projection of the fourth dimension is provided by the radiating waves in a pool of water caused by the impact of a stone. The fourth dimension can be measured both as the time and space between the contact of the stone with the water and the extreme longevity attained by radial measurement. It will be readily conceived that the intensity of original impact creating the splash as well as the medium in which the splash is made, together with temperatures and other outside conditions, will affect the longevity of the waves.
10 Without much further discussion of these fourth dimensional truths, be it explained we have exquisite or rapidly moving spheres, and slow or long wave length spheres, depending on the element and on the zone in which it is active (earth, water, air, electricity, ether, fire). It is the variation in the fourth dimension, or time life in individual elements that finally causes the break down of nature’s synthetic materials, such as stone by erosion, which is but a ‘‘slow movie’’ form of the effervescence in champagne. In the modern internal combustion engine, we have arranged a group of similar fourth dimensional metallic material in precision relation, and in proper consideration of dynamic truths. We introduce into what we call the cylinder head two groups of fourth dimensional spheres of greatly varying speed and wave length. Due to their discordant wave characteristics they create explosion or repulsion of exquisite effervescence. These rapidly repulsed and swollen spheres, greatly magnified by the electrical ‘‘step up’’ to the next higher plane of activity, (the mathematical increase being figured by spheroidal content increase, as attained by radial or time distance in the next higher zone of each element, there being always geometrical reduction of friction with each higher plane attained) cannot be opposed by the counter dynamic position of the slow material or metal, and the consequence is the transition into motion, as we can perceive of it, within the material or conscious sphere. It is by proper scientific handling of these subjects, that, with synthetic materials, we have devised mechanics and translated fourth dimension into useful motion. Though as is so often true in the first appearance of a truth, completely unconscious of the material law of time dimension, covering the problem, have certain of its solutions been made. That is, those devising the gasoline motor have not conceived of it as a fourth dimensional design and control, though, that it was in effect. Mal odor, noise, rupture, disease, fracture, are one and the same, being characteristic perceptions of the different senses of the wasteful protest of inharmonies of time composition. Of such is radio ‘‘static’’; of such is thunder; of such is rust; of such is earthquake; and of such is stockyard smell.
11 The basis of denial of the fourth dimension, which has been supported by the theoretical and fallacious plane and cubical geometry, has been the inability to produce an additional or fourth perpendicular to a cube, as the basis of an additional power multiplication, whereas poor little plane arithmetic and algebra, without geometrical reference, being abstract, indicate the perfect ability to do so. Very rightly do they do so, for if the geometrist will go back to his first perpendicular, he will find it perpendicular to a sphere, for did he not assume a dot as the first basis of his geometrical theorem, which if conceded at all must be spheroidal. Matter if existent at all, (and we cannot fallaciously assume a truth that is not) must be spheroidal. Surely the ‘‘Plane and solid’’ geometrist does not claim his ‘‘dot’’ or ‘‘point’’ to be cubical, for then would he have no further cause for his progressive antics. We see that there is no cubism, and that we can have as many perpendiculars to the inside or outside of the sphere as we may wish. Each power raising, or root taking, is on the basis of spheroidal increase or decrease by that many units of its radial or time dimension. The only ‘‘straight line’’ then is the radial or timeline, demonstrable by spheroidal dissection on its radial axis. There is also much laughter at the ‘‘Plane and solids’’.
12 Thus we come to understand that no two persons standing on the earth’s surface, unless one is directly above the other, may occupy the same time or radial perpendicular to the earth’s surface, which indeed bespeaks individualism and explains the conflict of flat surface, cubistic life, as at present set forth in our cubistic cities. It will be further seen, that the term ‘‘fourth dimension’’, bespeaking the fallacious three dimensions of cubism, is in itself incorrect and limiting. As long as we have time, may we have as many powers of time, times the whole or angular segmentations of the sphere, as we may wish. So called gravity is but the expansion of this earth sphere keeping up with the units of non-amplified time control. As we control time, so may we fly off the earth. 98.6’ F. is the constant friction heat characteristic of the relatively grouped samples of all elemental spheres of the human body. Could synthetic 4D composition be more standard than the material body.
13 As a non descriptive reference, 4 D being only the enigmatic term for time, do we use these characters as the trademark of our industrial activity, occasioned by the new or correct basis of figuring of the infinity of time dimensions.
14 We are about to industrialize the truth that Columbus had the courage to demonstrate 4-1/2 centuries ago. Think of the conviction that was necessary in that ‘‘trans oceanic hop’’, which couldn’t possibly be over in 30 hours, one way or the other; and which had to bring along its self-conscious audience to daily, weekly and monthly provoke it with being ‘‘all wrong’’. Our flights pale beside it, and its very truth has been stubbornly evaded to this day.