SECTION 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland

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Law decided that in all towns containing a population above ten thousand,
the angle of a Pentagon was the smallest house-angle that could be
allowed consistently with the public safety. The good sense of the
community has seconded the efforts of the Legislature; and now, even in
the country, the pentagonal construction has superseded every other. It is
only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district
that an antiquarian may still discover a square house.
SECTION 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of
Flatland
The greatest length or breadth of a full grown inhabitant of Flatland
may be estimated at about eleven of your inches. Twelve inches may be
regarded as a maximum.
Our Women are Straight Lines.
Our Soldiers and Lowest Class of Workmen are Triangles with two
equal sides, each about eleven inches long, and a base or third side so
short (often not exceeding half an inch) that they form at their vertices a
very sharp and formidable angle. Indeed when their bases are of the most
degraded type (not more than the eighth part of an inch in size), they can
hardly be distinguished from Straight lines or Women; so extremely
pointed are their vertices. With us, as with you, these Triangles are
distinguished from others by being called Isosceles; and by this name I
shall refer to them in the following pages.
Our Middle Class consists of Equilateral or Equal-Sided Triangles.
Our Professional Men and Gentlemen are Squares (to which class I
myself belong) and Five-Sided Figures or Pentagons.
Next above these come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees,
beginning at Six-Sided Figures, or Hexagons, and from thence rising in
the number of their sides till they receive the honourable 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

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distinguished from a circle, he is included in the Circular or Priestly order;
and this is the highest class of all.
It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more
side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in
the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a
Pentagon; the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on.
But this rule applies not always to the Tradesman, and still less often
to the Soldiers, and to the Workmen; who indeed can hardly be said to
deserve the name of human Figures, since they have not all their sides
equal. With them therefore the Law of Nature does not hold; and the son
of an Isosceles (i.e. a Triangle with two sides equal) remains Isosceles still.
Nevertheless, all hope is not such out, even from the Isosceles, that his
posterity may ultimately rise above his degraded condition. For, after a
long series of military successes, or diligent and skillful labours, it is
generally found that the more intelligent among the Artisan and Soldier
classes manifest a slight increase of their third side or base, and a
shrinkage of the two other sides. Intermarriages (arranged by the Priests)
between the sons and daughters of these more intellectual members of the
lower classes generally result in an offspring approximating still more to
the type of the Equal-Sided Triangle.
Rarely–in proportion to the vast numbers of Isosceles births– is a
genuine and certifiable Equal-Sided Triangle produced from Isosceles
parents (footnote 1). Such a birth requires, as its antecedents, not only a
series of carefully arranged intermarriages, but also a long-continued
exercise of frugality and self-control on the part of the would-be ancestors
of the coming Equilateral, and a patient, systematic, and continuous
development of the Isosceles intellect through many generations.
The birth of a True Equilateral Triangle from Isosceles parents is the
subject of rejoicing in our country for many furlongs round. After a strict
examination conducted by the Sanitary and Social Board, the infant, if
certified as Regular, is with solemn ceremonial admitted into the class of
Equilaterals. He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing
parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath