Edwin Abbott Abbott, in Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Ch. 20: How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision
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"You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own — for he cannot conceive of any other except himself — and plumes himself upon the variety of 'Its Thought' as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction."

— Edwin Abbott Abbott on Acceptance

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own — for he cannot conceive of any other except himself — and plumes himself upon the variety of 'Its Thought' as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction."" in the context of "Edwin Abbott Abbott, in Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Ch. 20: How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Edwin Abbott Abbott

About Edwin Abbott Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, most famous as the author of the social satire Flatland (1884), widely noted for its use of mathematical dimensions in religious and political allegories.