Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926. English scholar, theologian, and writer.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- | "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange" | | ______ | | / / /| ------ / /| /| / /-. | | /---- / /__| / / /__| / | / / / | | / /___ / | / /___ / | / |/ /__.-' | | | | No Dimensions One Dimension | | . A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS ----- | | POINTLAND LINELAND | | | | Two Dimensions Three Dimensions | | ___ __ | | | | /__/| | | |___| |__|/ | | FLATLAND SPACELAND | | "Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!" | ----------------------------------------------------------------- With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott) To The Inhabitants 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 Enlargement of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most rare and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884. By the Editor