From your section 19......
"Trifle not we me, my lord; I crave, I thirst, for more knowledge."
From section 20 in your hyperlink......
"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."
Note: There are THREE obvious ways to consider the above.
1) In the context of the entire book.
2) Only in the context of the section from which each is cited.
3) Solely on their own merit as philosophical thought.
And needless to say......
I shall mind not any FOURTH or FIFTH, etc. manner in which any reader of this thread may care to address either of the above quoted FLATLAND excerpts.
BRAVO to all who opt to play in this interesting (to me) sandbox.
Cheers.