The Son of a Square Is a Pentagon

It is a law of nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father. 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  and 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 become 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.