_FLATLAND_ A Romance of Many Dimensions _With Illustrations by the Author_, A SQUARE “_Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!_” LONDON SEELEY & Co., 46, 47 & 48, ESSEX STREET, STRAND (_Late of_ 54 Fleet Street) 1884 LONDON: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, BREAD STREET HILL. 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 _CONTENTS_ _PART I THIS WORLD_ _Section_ 1 _Of the Nature of Flatland_ 2 _Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland_ 3 _Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland_ 4 _Concerning the Women_ 5 _Of our Methods of Recognizing one another_ 6 _Of Recognition by Sight_ 7 _Concerning Irregular Figures_ 8 _Of the Ancient Practice of Painting_ 9 _Of the Universal Colour Bill_ 10 _Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition_ 11 _Concerning our Priests_ 12 _Of the Doctrine of our Priests_ _PART II OTHER WORLDS_