THE MISTRESS. I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow feelthat beautiful much all you have been saying is in effect untrue. Notone of you would be willing to change our civilization for any other.In your estimate you take no account, it seems to me, of the growthof charity.

MANDEVILLE. And you might add a recognition of the value of humanlife.

THE MISTRESS. I don't believe there was ever before diffusedeverywhere such an element of good-will, and never before were womenso much engaged in philanthropic work.