The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;
Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171

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He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best that loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

Edwin A. Abbott

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you are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!

Edwin A. Abbott

Tag: flatland

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Upward, not Northward

Edwin A. Abbott

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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..

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Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality, for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence 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.

Edwin A. Abbott

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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.

Edwin A. Abbott

Tag: first-sentence

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I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.

Edwin A. Abbott

Tag: women humour satire anger family-relationships

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Attend to your Configuration.

Edwin A. Abbott

Tag: satire

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

Edwin A. Abbott

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