And pray what kind of children will women bear when they don't want them ?" "Well, Jane, your question would stagger me, if I did not know that Nature often skips a generation, and produces some older and finer type." "Highly civilized men don't want children.

Lady Harlow told me so, John." "Well then, Jane, highly civilized men are in no danger.

They need not fear what women can do to them.

They will only find women pleasant to meet and easy to leave.

I saw many, many women in the London parks and shopping district so perverted as to be on friendly terms with dogs, and in their homes, with cats and cockatoos, and who had no affection for children--women who could try to understand the screams of a parrot, the barking of a dog, but who would not tolerate the lovely patois of the nursery.