They speak about 'right' or 'wrong' as vehemently and passionately as if they believed that these names represented real existences, and that a human… - Edwin A. Abbott

Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. Now listen.

Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort. The result is massacre;

He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best that loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.