Preface

“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange”
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A ROMANCE | OF MANY DIMENSIONS No Disensions B by A Square P , “ One Dimension
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Three Dimensions
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“And therefore as a stranger give it welcome”
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Edwin A. Abbott
FLATLAND
A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS
With Illustrations by the Author, ASQUARE
First published in 1884 by Seely & Co.
Printed in the USA 2016
I STREET PRESS 828 I STREET SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
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
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