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the purpose of my illustration -- every Point in you, that is to say
in such a way that no Point shall pass through the position
a straight Line of its own. This is all in accordance with Analogy;
to rush blindly at my Visitor and to precipitate him into Space,
I replied: --
"And what may be the nature of the Figure which I am to shape out
I presume it is describable in the language of Flatland."
SPHERE. Oh, certainly. It is all plain and simple,
you must not speak of the result as being a Figure, but as a Solid.
-- has only ONE terminal.html">terminal.html">terminal.html">terminal Point.
One Point produces a Line with TWO terminal Points.
One Line produces a Square with FOUR terminal Points.
Now you can give yourself the answer to your own question: 1, 2, 4,
YOU-DO-NOT-AS-YET-KNOW-A-NAME-FOR-BUT-WHICH-WE-CALL-A-CUBE
"terminal Points"?
SPHERE. Of course; and all according to Analogy. But, by the way,
You would call.html">call them SOLIDS.
I. And how many solids or sides will appertain to this Being whom
and whom you call a Cube?
SPHERE. How can you ask? And you a mathematician!
the thing. Consequently, as there is no Dimension behind a Point,
(for the Points of a Line may be called by courtesy, its sides);
The Cube which you will generate will be bounded by six sides,
no more will I endure thy mockeries. Either thou or I must perish."
Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words,
collision with the Stranger, pressing on him with a force sufficient
slowly and unarrestably slipping from my contact; no edging to
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