all the excess usual in a pervert, encourage them to hasten the destruction of the earth."
"That is a hard task," she replied.
"Why?" he asked. "War is the greatest course of glory, and universal conquest might dazzle the most ambitious. All that we propose is war, on a scale and in a manner hitherto not attempted."
"Thy words," she said, "throw a new light on the matter. Truly war and conquest are glorious, and the more thorough the more glorious. Greeks have before this warred on Greeks; and ye are, in your origin, Greek. My former disgust seems to me most unreasonable. Trust me, I will aid thee to the best of my power."
"Next," he said, "thou must express thy ardent desire to leave the real government with the men, as before, and allow that women are by nature inferior, and that they may be loved
