Quote#Poetry
Alas, how strong a family likeness runs through blind and persecuting…
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)
Alas, how strong a family likeness runs through blind and persecuting humanity in all Dimensions! Points, Lines, Squares, Cubes, Extra-Cubes — we are all liable to the same errors, all alike the Slaves of our respective Dimensional prejudices, as one of your Spaceland poets has said
— Edwin Abbott Abbott
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