Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 47

in the social staircase.  Nothing would incite an inhaling Isosceles,
who has the hopes of producing an Equilateral Child to pick up a wife,
who calculated an only Irregularity among his/her Ancestors;  a Plaza
or Pentagon that is confident that his/her family is firmly in increase,
doesn't ask above of the five-hundredth generation;  a Hexagon
or Dodecagon is also more happy-go-lucky than the genealogical tree of his/her/their wife;
but a Circle has intentionally been known to pick up a wife
who has had an Irregular Great-grandfather and all because
of some disdains the superiority of five-year periods, or because of the charms
of a low voice--what, with us also more than with You,
you/he/she is thought "an excellent thing in a Donna." 

Such sick-judged marriages are, as you/he/she would be waited, sterile, if theirs
doesn't give Irregularity place positive or in the diminution of sides;
but none of these evilses you/he/she has offered until here sufficiently brake. 
The loss of some sides in an extremely-developed Polygon easily is not
noticed, and you/he/she is sometimes compensated by an operation succeeded in
the Gym Mole-therapeutics, as I have described above;  and the you Look for
it is too prepared to accept without protesting infecundity as a law of the
I develop superior.  Anchor, if this bad is not arrested, the gradual
the diminution of the Circular class can become soon more rapids and the
time cannot be distant far when, the run that is more able to
produces a Principal Circle, the Constitution of Flatland has to fall.

Another word to warn suggests me, although I am not able
so easily the mention a remedy;  and this also refers to our relationships
with Women.  Three hundred years ago you/he/she was approximately decreed by the,
I hoop principal that, from when women miss of Reason but abundant
in Emotion, they has to be essays more as rational, neither it receives
some mental education.  The consequence was that they was not anymore
taught to read, neither also to dominate the arithmetic enough to train them
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