Space has its origin in the fixity of substance, and, with time, belongs wholly to the material world. Neither space nor time is proper to the mind, nor to the spiritual world; for affection and thought, which are of the mind, are entirely above the limitations of either. Space and time came into existence with the creation of the natural world, yet they are not imponderable matter, as Hegel suggests. The particles of spiritual substances being condensed and becoming fixed, whereby matter is created, introduces space, and the duration of matter introduces time. Space is neither a form of activity nor a substance, but simply an attribute of extension proper to a world of fixed and inert matter.
That space and time are not proper to the mind, nor to the spiritual world, may be observed from the reflection that they are not attributes of thought and affection. Neither space nor time is a measure of affection or thought. Affection and thought act alike through short and long spaces. In the mind, or in the spiritual world as distinguished from the natural world, state takes the place of time, and differences of state exist in the place of spaces. To illustrate; the natural life of a man may be said to be threescore years and ten. This is a measurement made in the
