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Upward, not Northward


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Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.



Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.



I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.



Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.



Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.



To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.



Attend to your Configuration.

Attend to your Configuration.





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