because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which t… - Edwin A. Abbott

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because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.

Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions · February 13, 2011 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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I neglected my clients and my own business to give myself to the contemplation of the mysteries which I had once beheld, yet which I could impart to no one, and found daily more difficult to reproduce even before my own mental vision.

If a man with a triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? Are the houses and doors and churches in Flatland to be altered in order to accommodate such monsters?

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