As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, "Attend to your Configuration." Whether political, ecclesiastical, or moral, all their teaching has for its object the improvement of individual and collective Configuration — with special reference of course to the Configuration of the Circles, to which all other objects are subordinated. It is the merit of the Circles that they have effectually suppressed those ancient heresies which led men to waste energy and sympathy in the vain belief that conduct depends upon will, effort, training, encouragement, praise, or anything else but Configuration.


Chapter 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) - PART I: THIS WORLD

Edwin Abbott Abbott Quotes

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, Attend to your Configuration. Whether political, ecclesiastical, or...

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, Attend to your Configuration. Whether political, ecclesiastical, or...

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, Attend to your Configuration. Whether political, ecclesiastical, or...

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, Attend to your Configuration. Whether political, ecclesiastical, or...