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Edwin Abbott Abbott on Spirituality

1838–1926 England

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The matter is now so clear to me, the nature of real space so palpable, that methinks I could make a child understand it. Permit me but to descend at this moment and enlighten them. Pues no se nada yo la vdd :v viva holk ahre

Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance.

Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

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