How wonderful, how supremely beautiful your civilization must be!" Somel gave a further suggestion.
"You do not have to begin all over again, as you did with us.

We have made a sort of digest of what we have learned from you, and it has been eagerly absorbed, all over the country.

Perhaps you would like to see our outline ?" We were eager to see it, and deeply impressed.

To us, at first, these women, unavoidably ignorant of what to us was the basic commonplace of knowledge, had seemed on the plane of children, or of savages.

What we had been forced to admit, with growing acquaintance, was that they were ignorant as Plato and Aristotle were, but with a highly developed mentality quite comparable to that of Ancient Greece.
Far be it from me to lumber these pages with an account of what we so imperfectly strove to teach them.