And bathing, and nature...

"Mr. Beebe*

'How d'ye do? how d'ye do? Come and have a bathe,'"... "That's the best conversational opening I've ever heard. But I'm afraid it will only act between men. Can you picture a lady who has been introduced to another lady by a third lady opening civilities with 'How do you do? Come and have a bathe'? And yet you will tell me that the sexes are equal.'

Mr. Emerson

'I tell you that they shall be,' ... 'Good afternoon, Mr. Beebe. I tell you they shall be comrades, and George thinks the same.'

Mr. Beebe

'We are to raise ladies to our level?'

Mr. Emerson

'The Garden of Eden,' ... 'which you place in the past, is really yet to come. We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies.'

Mr. Emerson

'In this—not in other things—we men are ahead. We despise the body less than women do. But not until we are comrades shall we enter the garden.'

Mr. Emerson

'I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? To-day, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.'"

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