Competition is the--the motor power, you see." "It is not with us," they explained gently, "so it is hard for us to understand.

Do you mean, for instance, that with you no mother would work for her children without the stimulus of competition ?" No, he admitted that he did not mean that.

Mothers, he supposed, would of course work for their children in the home; but the world's work was different--that had to be done by men, and required the competitive element.
All our teachers were eagerly interested.
"We want so much to know--you have the whole world to tell us of, and we have only our little land! And there are two of you--the two sexes--to love and help one another.

It must be a rich and wonderful world.

Tell us--what is the work of the world, that men do--which we have not here ?" "Oh, everything," Terry said grandly.