Thus ended my first attempt to convert a pupil to
the Gospel of Three Dimensions.
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SECTION 22. -- How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three
Dimensions by other means, and of the result
My failure with my Grandson did not encourage me to communicate my
secret to others of my household; yet neither was I led by it to
despair of success. Only I saw that I must not wholly rely on the
catch-phrase, "Upward, not Northward," but must rather endeavour to
seek a demonstration by setting before the public a clear view of the
whole subject; and for this purpose it seemed necessary to resort to
writing.
So I devoted several months in privacy to the composition of a
treatise on the mysteries of Three Dimensions. Only, with the view of
evading the Law, if possible, I spoke not of a physical Dimension, but
of a Thoughtland whence, in theory, a Figure could look down upon
Flatland and see simultaneously the insides of all things, and where
it was possible that there might be supposed to exist a Figure
environed, as it were, with six Squares, and containing eight terminal
Points.
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