Where are the mothers of these twenty and odd men on the _Ghost_?
It strikes me as unnatural and unhealthful that men should be totally separated from women and herd through the world by themselves.

Coarseness and savagery are the inevitable results.
These men about me should have wives, and sisters, and daughters; then would they be capable of softness, and tenderness, and sympathy.

As it is, not one of them is married.

In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature.

There is no balance in their lives.