Slaves of Dimensional Prejudices

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

A Square Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott

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Context: The Square, answering his critics, compares his own treatment to how readers would treat a preacher of a fourth dimension.

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Source: Preface to the Second and Revised Edition

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