How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland,.How I came to Spaceland and what I saw there.How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds.How the Stranger vainly endeavored to reveal to me.How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland.Of the Doctrine of our Priests Part 2: Other Worlds.Of the Suppression of Chromatic Sedition.Of Our Methods of Recognizing one another.Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884,.Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error."Fie, fie how franticly I square my talk!" He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906).
More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906). In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. Liberal inclinations of Abbott in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F. He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire.
Liberal inclinations of Abbott People best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884). People best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884).
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