SOURCE: Jann, Rosemary. “Abbott's Flatland: Scientific Imagination and Natural Christianity.” Victorian Studies 28, no. 3 (spring 1985): 473-90.
In the following essay, Jann argues that Abbott addresses in Flatland the Victorian conflict between spirit and intellect and therefore the contemporary debate over the role of hypothesis in scientific study.
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