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F L A T L A N D

A Romance of Many Dimensions

by the Author, A SQUARE
(EDWIN A. ABBOTT)

"Fie, fie how franticly I square my talk!"

[Fifth Edition, Revised]


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To
The Inhabitance of SPACE IN GENERAL
And H.C. IN PARTICULAR
This Work is Dedicated
By a Humble Native of Flatland
In the Hope that
Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries
Of THREE DIMENSIONS
Having been previously conversant
With ONLY TWO
So the Citizens of that Celestial Region
May aspire yet higher and higher
To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE or EVEN SIX Dimensions
Thereby contributing
To the Enlargment of THE IMAGINATION
And the possible Development
Of that most and excellent Gift of MODESTY
Among the Superior Races
Of SOLID HUMANITY

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PREFACE TO THE
SECOND AND REVISED
EDITION, 1884.
BY THE EDITOR

If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he
enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need
to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, fully, to
return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose
appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a second edition
of this work; secondly, to apologize for certain errors and misprints