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Contents
Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another | |
Of Recognition by Sight | |
Concerning Irregular Figures | |
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition | |
Concerning Our Priests | |
Of the Doctrine of Our Priests | |
OTHER WORLDS | |
How I Had a Vision of Lineland | |
How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland | |
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland | |
How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland | |
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting | |
Of the Universal Colour Bill | |
How the Sphere Having in Vain Tried Words Resorted to Deeds | |
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