Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard. - Edwin A. Abbott

Thus ended my first attempt to convert a pupil to the Gospel of Three Dimensions.

How admirable is the Law of Compensation! And how perfect a proof of the natural fitness and, I may almost say, the divine origin of the aristocratic constitution of the States of Flatland! By a judicious use of this Law of Nature, the Polygons and Circles are almost always able to stifle sedition in its very cradle, taking advantage of the irrepressible and boundless hopefulness of the human mind.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.