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Herland

CHAPTER 6
11/20

This place is just like an enormous anthill--you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery.

And how about bees?
Don't they manage to cooperate and love one another?
as that precious Constable had it.

Just show me a combination of male creatures, bird, bug, or beast, that works as well, will you?
Or one of our masculine countries where the people work together as well as they do here! I tell you, women are the natural cooperators, not men!" Terry had to learn a good many things he did not want to.

To go back to my little analysis of what happened: They developed all this close inter-service in the interests of their children.

To do the best work they had to specialize, of course; the children needed spinners and weavers, farmers and gardeners, carpenters and masons, as well as mothers.
Then came the filling up of the place.


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