_Diogenes._ Eve did not enter into the original plan; she was an unlucky
afterthought. Listen to Milton:--
"O, why did God,
Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven
With spirits masculine...?"
You observe that there are no feminine angels in heaven?
_Aristippus._ So much the better for us, if we have them all here.
_Diogenes._ For the same reason, probably, we are told that there will
be neither marrying nor giving in marriage hereafter.
_Aristippus._ Not at all. There will be so many more women in heaven
than men, that any marriage, except of the Mormon kind, would be
impossible.
_Diogenes._
"O, why did God
... create at last
This novelty on earth, this fair defect
Of nature?"