Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 46

of that Commandment that in Spaceland it regulates the relationships among
parents and children.  With You, children are taught to honour their parents;
with us--next to the you Look for that I am the principal object of universal homage--
a man is taught to honour his/her Nephew, if he has one;  or, if not, his/her Child.
From "honour", however it is from anybody means the bad one "indulgence", but a reverent
respects for their taller affairs:  and the you Look for they teach that the duty
of fathers it is to subordinate them really it interests in those of posterity,
advancing with this the welfare of the whole State as that
of theirs own immediate descendants.

The weak point in the system of the Looks for--if a humble Plaza
you/he/she can venture to speak of Circular anything as containing some element
of the weakness--it appears to me to be found in their relationships with Women.

As it is of the maximum importance for Society how Irregular
births should be you discourage, it follows that any Donna that has some
The irregularities in its ancestry are an appropriate partner for one whom desires
what its posterity should rise from regular degrees in the social staircase.

Now the irregularity of a Male is a matter of measurement;  but as
all the Women are right, and therefore visibly to Regulate so to speak, one
it has to equipment of the other one he/she means to verify what I can call them
Invisible irregularity that is to say their potential Irregularities
as you greet the possible descendant.  This is effected from attentively-kept
genealogical trees that are preserved and supervisionarono from the State;  and without
a genealogical tree provided of certificate to any Donna is permitted to marry himself/herself/themselves.

The one Circle would now have been supposed--proud of its ancestry
and regardful for a posterity that it would publish in expectancy possibly
in a Principal Circle--it would be more accurate than some other to choose
a wife that didn't have stain on his/her shield.  But it is not this way.
The care in to choose a Regular wife seems to decrease as one it rises
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