DEFINITION OF THE NATURE OF THE LINE.

The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather

be called an imaginary idea than a real object; and this being its

nature it occupies no space. Therefore an infinite number of lines

may be conceived of as intersecting each other at a point, which has

no dimensions and is only of the thickness (if thickness it may be

called) of one single line.

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