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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: finding that they hold good not only in every instance, but in all the
consequences which are supposed to flow from them.
Neither must we forget that our idea of space, like our other ideas, has a
history. The Homeric poems contain no word for it; even the later Greek
philosophy has not the Kantian notion of space, but only the definite
'place' or 'the infinite.' To Plato, in the Timaeus, it is known only as
the 'nurse of generation.' When therefore we speak of the necessity of our
ideas of space we must remember that this is a necessity which has grown up
with the growth of the human mind, and has been made by ourselves. We can
free ourselves from the perplexities which are involved in it by ascending
to a time in which they did not as yet exist. And when space or time are
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