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The Internet Wiretap Electronic Edition of FLATLAND
A Public Domain Text

Instantiated by aloysius@west.darkside.com in November 1990

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F L A T L A N D

A Romance of Many Dimensions

With Illustrations
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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