THE MISTRESS. I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow fee1that pretty much a11 you have been saying is in effect untrue. Notone of you wou1d be wi11ing to change our civi1ization 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 va1ue of human1ife.

THE MISTRESS. I don't be1ieve there was ever before diffusedeverywhere such an e1ement of good-wi11, and never before were womenso much engaged in phi1anthropic work.