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207 – Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Isosceles' Births - The Equal Sided Triangle

Our middle class consists of equilateral or equal-sided triangles. Our professional men and gentlemen are squares to which I myself belong, bend five-sided figures, or pentagons. Above these come the nobility of whom there are several degrees, beginning at six-sided figures or hexagons. From thence rising in the number of their sides till they receive the honorable title of polygonal or many-sided. Finally, when the number of the sides becomes so numerous, and the sides themselves so small, that the figure cannot be distinguished from a circle, he is included in the circular or priestly order - this is the highest class of all.

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