and from experience, too, you would think that a breed of creatures born
from such women as are now living would be a herd of monsters, incapable
of civilization and refinement. And yet the world will go on, and we
know, almost, that our posterity will bring about wonders in the arts
and sciences, and perhaps even in society itself,--wonders which will
even surpass the triumph of our own generation. We are on the eve of
both traveling and talking through the bare air. We are in a way to
avoid the worst of our wars. It cannot be that the women who will bear
the men who will do all these things are to be