All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps (if not congeni...
The little Hexagon meditated on this a while and then said to me; But you have been teaching me to raise numbers to the third power: I suppose three-to-the-third must mean something in Geometry; what...
إن الرضا عن الذات مرادف للانحطاط والجهل، وطموح المرء خير له من قناعة زائفة تعمي عينيه وتغُل يديه،
Attend to your Configuration.
Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time.
Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.
Well, then, if a Point by moving three inches, makes a Line of three inches represented by 3; and if a straight Line of three inches, moving parallel to itself, makes a Square of three inches every wa...
To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
He prayeth well who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast.He prayeth best that loveth bestAll things both great and small;
It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house.
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
For why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished?
So that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty—
Theologian
True, said the Sphere; it appears to you a Plane, because you are not accustomed to light and shade and perspective; just as in Flatland a Hexagon would appear a Straight Line to one who has not the A...
Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to s...
All alike the Slaves of our respective Dimensional prejudices,
[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of...
Osserva quella miserabile creatura. Quel Punto è un Essere come noi, ma confinato nel baratro adimensionale. Egli stesso è tutto il suo Mondo, tutto il suo Universo; egli non può concepire altri fuor...
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