Quote#Hope
He hopes that, taken as a whole, his work may prove suggestive as…
Quote byEdwin Abbott Abbott · 1838–1926
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Preface to the Second and Revised Edition (1884).
English (original)
he hopes that, taken as a whole, his work may prove suggestive as well as amusing, to those Spacelanders of moderate and modest minds who — speaking of that which is of the highest importance, but lies beyond experience — decline to say on the one hand, "This can never be," and on the other hand, "It must needs be precisely thus, and we know all about it."
— Edwin Abbott Abbott
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