Distinction of sides is intended by Nature to imply distinction of colours such was the sophism which in those days flew from mouth to mouth, converting whole towns at a time to a new culture.Long practice and training, begun in the schools and continued in the experience of daily life, enable curious george wordsworth us to discriminate at once by the sense of touch, between the angles of an equal sided Triangle, Square, and Pentagon and I need not say that the brainless vertex of an acute angled Isosceles is obvious to the dullest touch.They are, moreover, of a rough coarse nature, not sensitive to the delicate touch of the highly organized Polygon.Immoral, licentious, anarchical, unscientific call them by what names you will yet, from an curious george wordsworth aesthetic point of view, those ancient days of the Colour Revolt were the glorious childhood of Art in Flatland a childhood, alas, that never ripened into manhood, nor even reached the blossom of youth.How can it be otherwise, when all one's prospect, all one's landscapes, historical pieces, portraits, flowers, still life, are nothing but a single line, with no varieties except degrees of brightness and obscurity? It was not always thus.Let me say rather it WOULD be difficult for, as I have shown above, Recognition by Feeling is unknown among the highest society, curious george wordsworth and to FEEL a Circle would be considered a most audacious insult.The inferior Art of Feeling speedily experienced the same fate at our Elementary Schools.Needless to say, the custom soon made its way from the district of Chromatistes to surrounding regions and within two generations no curious george wordsworth one in all Flatland was colourless except the Women and the Priests.His every movement is jealously watched by the police till he comes of age and presents himself for inspection then he is either destroyed, if he is found to exceed the fixed margin of deviation, at an uninteresting occupation for a miserable stipend obliged to live and board at the office, and to take even his vacation under close supervision what wonder that human nature, even in the best and purest, is embittered and perverted by such surroundings! All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.The latter had only one side, curious george wordsworth and therefore plurally and pedantically speaking NO SIDES.At all events I am not alone in my way of extricating myself from this dilemma for I find that many of the highest Circles, sitting as Judges in law courts, use praise and blame towards Regular and Irregular Figures and in their homes I know by experience that, when scolding their children, they speak about right and wrong as vehemently and passionately as if they believe that these names represented real existence, and that a human Figure is really capable of choosing between them.Turning now curious george wordsworth to the Workmen he asserted that their interests must not be neglected, and that, if they intended to accept the Colour Bill, they ought at least to do so with full view of the consequences.A Male of the lowest type of the Isosceles may look forward to some improvement of his angle, and to the ultimate elevation of the whole of his degraded caste but no Woman can entertain such hopes for her sex.Many of them, he said, were on the point of being admitted to the class of the Regular Triangles others anticipated curious george wordsworth for their children a distinction they could not hope for themselves.So great is the terror with which even now our Aristocracy looks back to the far distant days of the agitation for the Universal Colour Bill.