Cubes and Spheres in Human Life

About this book

What might a cube teach about the way a person lives? What qualities belong to a sphere? Frederick Alonzo Wiggin gives geometry a moral life, turning simple shapes into emblems of character and spiritual development.

The chapters move through desire, work, service, perception and the evolution of the soul, using the contrast between angular and rounded forms as a recurring image. Written within a spiritualist culture, the book treats everyday effort as something with larger meaning. It is an unexpectedly gentle exercise in seeing familiar objects as invitations to self-examination.