Capitolo 15
Preventive setup that has ordered that, as they doesn't have hopes, so them
it won't have any memory to recall, and any foresight to anticipate,
the uneasiness and humiliations of which I/you/they immediately am a necessity of theirs
existence and the base of the constitution of Flatland.
Sections 5 Of our Methods to Recognize each other
You that it is blessed with shade as light, You that it is
given with two eyes, gifted with a knowledge of perspective,
and it enchanted with the enjoyment of various colours, You that it is able
indeed Sees an angle, and you contemplate the complete circumference
of a Circle in the happy to region the Three Dimensions--
as I do him/it clear to you the extreme difficulty that us
in Flatland you experiment in to recognize the configuration of each other?
I recall that above of which I told him. All the beings in Flatland, animate and
inanimate, any matter that that their form, present Á. Our Sight the same,
or almost the same, aspect, viz. that of a right Line. As then
can one be separate from another, where do all appear the same?
The answer is threefold. The first one means of recognition it is the sense
of hearing; what with us you/he/she is extremely developed far than with You,
and what it not only trains us to distinguish from the voice of ours
personal friends, but also to discriminate among different classes,
at least till now as worries the three orders lowest, the equilateral one,
the Plaza and the Pentagon--for the isosceles one I don't take account.
But as us we salt the social staircase the trial to discriminate,
and being discriminated feeling increases in difficulty, partly because
bawls are assimilated, partly because the faculty of the voice-discrimination
it is not a plebeian virtue that very you/he/she has developed among the aristocracy. And wherever
there is some danger of imposture in which we cannot have trust to this method.
Among our orders lower, the vocal organs are developed to a degree
more corresponding with those of hearing, so that an Isosceles