In a word, to compost oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself. - Edwin A. Abbott

I addressed the Point as follows: “Silence, silence, contemptible Creature. You call yourself the All in All, but you are the Nothing: your so-called Universe is a mere speck in a Line, and a Line is a mere shadow as compared with —

Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

Thus ended my first attempt to convert a pupil to the Gospel of Three Dimensions.