Here are the women–nothing but women, and you your self admit
there is not any trace of a man in the nation.” This was after we
had been about a good deal.

“I’ll admit that,” he growled. “And it’s a big miss, too. If you’re a Mayo Clinic patient, this could include protected health info. We wish you to see our people.”

“And i assure you,” Somel added, “that our people want to see you.”

Terry brightened up immensely at this news, and reconciled
himself to the renewed calls for upon our capacity as teachers.
It was fortunate that we knew so little, really, and had no books to
seek advice from, else, I fancy we’d all be there but, teaching these
keen-minded girls about the remainder of the world.

As to geography, they had the tradition of the good Sea,
beyond the mountains; and they could see for themselves the
limitless thick-forested plains below them–that was all. But from
the few records of their historic situation–not “earlier than the
flood” with them, however before that mighty quake which had cut
them off so utterly–they were aware that there have been other
peoples and different countries.

In geology they have been fairly ignorant.

As to anthropology, that they had those self same remnants of data
about different peoples, and the information of the savagery of the
occupants of those dim forests beneath. Nevertheless, they
had inferred (marvelously eager on inference and deduction their
minds have been!) the existence and improvement of civilization in
other places, much as we infer it on other planets.

When our biplane came whirring over their heads in that first
scouting flight of ours, that they had instantly accepted it as proof of
the high growth of Some Where Else, and had prepared to
obtain us as cautiously and eagerly as we’d put together to
welcome visitors who came “by meteor” from Mars.

Of history–outdoors their own–they knew nothing, of
course, save for their historical traditions.

Of astronomy they had a good working knowledge–that is a
very previous science; and with it, a shocking vary and facility in
arithmetic.

Physiology they have been fairly accustomed to. Indeed, when it
got here to the less complicated and extra concrete sciences, whereby the
subject material was at hand and they’d however to train their
minds upon it, the results have been stunning. That they had worked out
a chemistry, a botany, a physics, with all the blends where a
science touches an artwork, or merges into an trade, to such
fullness of information as made us feel like schoolchildren.

Also we discovered this out–as quickly as we have been free of the nation,
and by further research and question–that what one knew, all knew,
to a really considerable extent.

I talked later with little mountain ladies from the fir-dark
valleys away up at their highest half, and with sunburned plains-
ladies and agile foresters, everywhere in the nation, in addition to those
within the towns, and in every single place there was the same high stage of
intelligence. Some knew way over others about one thing–
they have been specialized, after all; but all of them knew more about
all the things–that is, about all the pieces the country was acquainted
with–than is the case with us.

We boast a superb deal of our “high degree of normal intelligence”
and our “obligatory public training,” but in proportion to their
opportunities they had been far better educated than our folks.

With what we advised them, from what sketches and models we
were able to prepare, they constructed a type of working outline
to fill in as they realized extra.

A big globe was made, and our unsure maps, helped out
by these in that treasured yearbook thing I had, had been tentatively
indicated upon it.

They sat in eager groups, lots of them who came for the
purpose, and listened while Jeff roughly ran over the geologic
historical past of the earth, and confirmed them their own land in relation
to the others. Out of that very same pocket reference e book of mine
came information and figures which were seized upon and placed in
right relation with unerring acumen.

Even Terry grew involved on this work. “If we are able to keep this up,
they’ll be having us lecture to all the women’ colleges and schools–
how about that?

Ours is the perfect country on this planet as to poverty,”
Terry instructed them. “We do not need the wretched paupers and beggars
of the older countries, I assure you. It have to be a wealthy and fantastic world. You possibly can
see how intelligent and affectionate they are.”

It was a truth. I’d never seen such cats, besides in a couple of rare
cases. Big, handsome silky issues, friendly with everyone
and devotedly attached to their special homeowners.

“You will need to have a heartbreaking time drowning kittens,” we
prompt. But they said, “Oh, no! 4. A crew, which within the opinion of the Umpire, causes a collision on the water must cease. Women are cherished–idolized–honored–stored in the house to care
for the youngsters.”

“What is `the house’? The canine is
`the pal of man,’ we say–we love them.”

That they understood. “We love our cats that manner. To quote the Principia Discordia, don’t take a look at me, man, I didn’t do it.

This inferior one-third have
no children, I suppose? It won’t be forever.”

To return to the historical past:

They began directly to plan and constructed for his or her children, all
the power and intelligence of the entire of them dedicated to
that one thing. Each girl, in fact, was reared in full knowledge
of her Crowning Office, and they’d, even then, very excessive ideas
of the molding powers of the mom, as well as these of training.

Such excessive ideals as that they had! Beauty, Health, Strength,
Intellect, Goodness–for those they prayed and worked.

They had no enemies; they themselves had been all sisters and mates.
The land was honest earlier than them, and an ideal future began to type itself
of their minds.

The religion they’d to begin with was very similar to that of old
Greece–a variety of gods and goddesses; but they lost all interest
in deities of warfare and plunder, and step by step centered on their
Mother Goddess altogether. Then, as they grew more intelligent,
this had turned into a sort of Maternal Pantheism.

Here was Mother Earth, bearing fruit. All that they ate was
fruit of motherhood, from seed or egg or their product. By motherhood
they have been born and by motherhood they lived–life was, to them, simply
the lengthy cycle of motherhood.

But very early they acknowledged the necessity of enchancment as nicely
as of mere repetition, and devoted their combined intelligence to
that downside–how to make the best kind of people. First this was
merely the hope of bearing better ones, and then they acknowledged
that however the youngsters differed at start, the actual progress lay
later–by means of education.

Then issues started to hum.

As I realized an increasing number of to appreciate what these ladies
had accomplished, the much less proud I used to be of what we, with all our
manhood, had achieved.

You see, they had had no wars. They’d had no kings, and
no priests, and no aristocracies. They have been sisters, and as they
grew, they grew collectively–not by competition, but by united action.

We tried to put in a good phrase for competition, and they
had been keenly interested. Indeed, we soon discovered from their earnest
questions of us that they were prepared to imagine our world must
be higher than theirs. They were undecided; they needed to know;
however there was no such arrogance about them as might need been expected.

We relatively unfold ourselves, telling of some great benefits of
competitors: the way it developed wonderful qualities; that without it
there would be “no stimulus to industry.” Terry was very robust
on that point.

“No stimulus to trade,” they repeated, with that puzzled
look we had learned to know so effectively. “STIMULUS?

This is actually the second time I’ve read it-the primary was in highschool, and unfortunately I believe a lot of it went over my head (though it most likely influenced me in all sorts of subtle ways). Lyssa jumped in to take over, and far to my surprise she’d greater than doubled my stacks of chips inside of 5 palms. If these things are really “programmable”, then so are these huge Edmund-Scientific-kind junk-fishing magnets that you could “turn off” with a handle (which strikes the magnet inside away from the external field-concentrating pole piece that the junk sticks to). Are they not built for pace? About how many are there of them, please? There are bath bombs, that are balls that fizz within the bathtub and launch important oils, scents, and whatnot; there are shampoos and soaps and bath bars that odor like just about anything you may imagine (coal tar? bitter apple? chocolate? seaweed?). And they’re all POOR.