Next above these [the straight line, the triangle, quadrilateral, and the pentagon] 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 honorable title of Polygonal, or many-sided.


Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Dedication (p. 19), Little, Brown & Co. 1899

Edwin Abbott Abbott Quotes

Next above these [the straight line, the triangle, quadrilateral, and the pentagon] come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning...

Next above these [the straight line, the triangle, quadrilateral, and the pentagon] come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning...

Next above these [the straight line, the triangle, quadrilateral, and the pentagon] come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning...

Next above these [the straight line, the triangle, quadrilateral, and the pentagon] come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning...