They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together—not by competition, but by united action.

"Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.

I snorted derision at this idea.

The dog is 'the friend of man,' we say—we love them."

Do you mean, for instance, that with you no mother would work for her children without the stimulus of competition?"

strange country where no men lived—only women and girl children.

But there are men somewhere—didn't you see the babies?"

We had quite easily come to accept the Herland life as normal, because it was normal—none of us make any outcry over mere health and peace and happy industry. And the abnormal, to which we are all so sadly well acclimated, she had never

telling of the advantages of competition: how it developed fine qualities; that without it there would be "no stimulus to industry." Terry was very strong on that point.