o otherwise, but that, whatever they do, they make no
rule or example for man. Again: "Whatever the economic value of the
domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the
most work get the least money." And yet but now they were charged with
"getting it" too dependently, or rather, with having it "got" for them by
man! Is this writer indeed misled by that mere word "money," which she
here lets slip?

"He nearly persuades me to go on all fours," sighs Voltaire rising--rising
erect reluctantly, one may almost say--from the reading of Rousseau.

THE UNREADY

It is rashly said that the senses of children are quick. They are, on
the contrary, unwieldy in turning, unready in reporting, until advancing
age teaches them agility. This is not lack of sensitiveness, but mere
length of process. For instance, a child nearly newly born is cruelly
startled by a sudden crash in the room--a child who has never learnt to
fear, and is merely overcome by the shock of sound; nevertheless, that
shock of sound does not reach the conscious hearing or the nerves but
after some moments, nor before some moments more is the sense of the
shock expressed. The sound travels to the remoteness and seclusion of
the child's consciousness, as the roar of a gun travels to listeners half
a mile away.

So it is, too, with pain, which has learnt to be so instant and eager
with us of later age that no point of time is lost in its touches--direct
as the unintercepted message of great and candid eyes, unhampered by
trivialities; even so immediate is the communication of pain. But you
could count five between the prick of a surgeon's instrument upon a
baby's arm and the little whimper that answers it. The child is then too
young, also, to refer the feeling of pain to the arm that suffers it.
Even when pain has groped its way to his mind it hardly seems to bring
local tidings thither. The baby does not turn his eyes in any degree
towards his arm or towards the side that is so vexed with vaccination. He
looks in any other direction at haphazard, and cries at random.

See, too, how slowly the unpractised apprehension of an older child
trudges after the nimbleness of a conjurer. It is the greatest failure
to take these little _gobe-mouches_ to a good conjurer. His successes
leave them cold, for they had not yet understood what it was the good man
meant to surprise them withal. The amateur it is who really astonishes