Or such a happening--for there wasn't.

Nor even that this hideous false idea was believed by anybody.

But only this--that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything--which you certainly knew before.'" "Anyhow," pursued Ellador, "she turned pale for a minute when I first said it." This was a lesson to me.

No wonder this whole nation of women was peaceful and sweet in expression--they had no horrible ideas.
"Surely you had some when you began," I suggested.
"Oh, yes, no doubt.

But as soon as our religion grew to any height at all we left them out, of course." From this, as from many other things, I grew to see what I finally put in words.
"Have you no respect for the past?
For what was thought and believed by your foremothers ?" "Why, no," she said.