Paris had only robbed women of their grace and dignity.

He preferred the young girls in their costume of the fourteenth dynasty.

Progress, he thought, had tended only to complicate life and render it less enjoyable.

All the essentials of happiness--love, courtship, marriage, the home, children, friendship, social intercourse, and play, were independent of it; had always been there for the asking.
Joan thought his mistake lay in regarding man's happiness as more important to him than his self-development.

It was not what we got out of civilization but what we put into it that was our gain.