Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 6

Right lines or Women;  then extremely pointed it is their verticeses.
With us, as with You, these Triangles are separate,
from others having called Isosceles;  and from this name
I will report me to them in the following pages.

Our Middle class consists of Equilateral or it Equal-sided Triangles.

Our Professional Men and Gentlemen are Plazas (to that the class
Me I belong) and Figures or Pentagons it Five-sided.

Following above of these come to the Nobility, of whom there
it is many degrees, while starting to Be-sided Figures,
or Hexagons, and to rise for this motive in the number of them
sides cultivate them they receive the honourables they entitle of Polygonal,
or it very-sided. Finally when the number of the sides becomes so numerous,
and their sides so small, that the figure cannot be
distinguished by a circle, he is included in the Circular
or Priestly order;  and this is the tallest class of everybody.

It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child will have
a more side that his/her father, so that every generation
it will rise (as a rule) a footstep in the staircase of development
and the nobility. This way the child of a Plaza is a Pentagon;
the child of a Pentagon, a Hexagon;  and so on. 

But this rule doesn't always apply to the Merchant,
and still often to the Soldiers, and to the Workers;
you/he/she can be said indeed as soon as that who deserve the name of human Figures,,
from when they doesn't have all of their sides equalize.  With them therefore
the Law of Nature doesn't hold;  and the child of an Isosceles
(i.e. a Triangle with two in general peer) the rests Isosceles still.
Every hope is not so out nevertheless, also from the isosceles one,
what its posterity can lately rise above its failsoft condition.
For, after a long series of the successes military, or industrious
and skilled he/she works, you/he/she is generally found that the more
intelligent between the artisan and demonstration of classes of Soldier
a disdains increase of their third side or bases and a contraction
of the two other sides.  Marriage among akin (it systematized from the Priests)
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