human
We shall pick out, from your degenerate sex, such physically perfect individuals as chance to remain; we shall regard our marriages with them as purely scientific and cold-blooded affairs; we have begun, for the purposes of re-populating the world by capturing four symmetrical young men. You are the fifth. The Regents of the New Race University will select for you several girls who, theoretically, are best qualified to become the mothers of your----
gpt
Stop! shouted Langdon, tearing violently at the net.
human
I don't want you to talk that way to me!
gpt
What way?
human
You know perfectly well, he retorted, blushing vividly.
gpt
I won't stand it!
human
What a slave to prudery and smug convention you are, she observed with amused contempt.
gpt
Nobody in the University is going to shock your modesty.
human
Well, what _are_ they going to do?
gpt
Turn you loose in the preserve after the Regents have inspected you.
human
And then?
gpt
Oh, I suppose two or three girls will be selected.
human
To do w-what?
gpt
To pay you marked attention.
human
M-m-marked _what_?
gpt
Attention. Two or three girls will begin to court you.
human
How?
gpt
Oh, the usual way--by sending you flowers and books and bon-bons, and asking permission to call on you in your cave,
human
Will _you_ be one of those--those aspirants to my hand?
gpt
I hope not. I'm sure I don't desire to be the mother of----
human
Stop! I tell you to stop conversing on such topics!
gpt
I want to get up! he shouted.
human
My position is undignified! Anybody'd think I was a prize animal. I don't like this poultry talk! I'm a _man_! I'm no bench-winner. And if ever I marry and p-p-produce p-p-progeny, it will be somebody _I_ select, not somebody who selects _me_!
gpt
No, she said.
human
For centuries man has mated from sentiment and filled the earth with mental and physical degeneracy. Now woman steps in. It is her turn. And she flings aside precedent, prejudice, and sentiment--for the good of the human race! and joining hands with Science marches forward inexorably toward the millennium!