"Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality."
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories, Penguin UK, 29 January 2009, p. 163
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