Upward, not Northward - Edwin A. Abbott

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Upward, not Northward

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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About Edwin A. Abbott

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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In a word, to comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself. Such at least is the painful teaching of my experience.

It fills all Space, and what It fills, It is. What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It itself is Thinker, Utterer, Hearer, Thought, Word, Audition; it is the One, and yet the All in All. Ah, the happiness, ah, the happiness of Being!

It is considered a disgrace to any State that legislation should have to enforce what ought to be, and is in every respectable female, a natural instinct.