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" "Thus ended my first attempt to convert a pupil to the Gospel of Three Dimensions.
Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, most famous as the author of the social satire Flatland (1884), widely noted for its use of mathematical dimensions in religious and political allegories.
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لو كنت رجلاً منطقيا - مع أنني أرتاب بعض الشيء في كونكـ رجلا – لأنكـ تمتلكـ فيما يبدو صوتا واحدا، ولكن لو كانت لديكـ ذرة من المنطق، لاستمعت إلى صوت العقل، أنت تطلب مني أن أصدق أن هناكـ نوعا أخر من الحركة غير تلكـ التي أراها كل يوم ، و أنا بدوري أطلب منكـ أن تصف بالكلمات أو تبين عن طريق الحركة ذلكـ الخط الآخر الذي تتحدث عنهـ، ولكنكـ بدلاً من أن تتحرك تمارس نوعا من الحيل السحريّة للاختفاء ومعاودة الظهور مرة أخرى، وبدلاً من أن تقدم لي صورة واضحة لعالمكـ الجديد، تخبرني فقط بأطوال نحو أربعين من حاشيتي، وهي حقائق يعرفها أي طفل في عاصمتنا، هل هناكـ ما هو أكثر جنوناً أو وقاحة من ذلكـ؟ اعترف بحماقتكـ أو ارحل عن أرضي..
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"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows — only hard with luminous edges — and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe:" but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a "solid" kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles, Squares, and other figures, moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except Straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate."