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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: feebleminded ones at that.
We had expected jealousy, and found a broad sisterly affection,
a fair-minded intelligence, to which we could produce no parallel.
We had expected hysteria, and found a standard of health and vigor,
a calmness of temper, to which the habit of profanity, for instance,
was impossible to explain--we tried it.
All these things even Terry had to admit, but he still insisted
that we should find out the other side pretty soon.
"It stands to reason, doesn't it?" he argued. "The whole
thing's deuced unnatural--I'd say impossible if we weren't in it.
And an unnatural condition's sure to have unnatural results.
Herland | 
