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Woman's work, some of which had passed on to the virile stage, 

 was of the first rank in curiously-wrought pottery and in textiles made 

 from paca wool, one of the finest staples, as their delicate spindle whorls 

 will attest. 



But these Peruvian uplands were the training grounds of men espe- 

 cially. Together the earth, the air, the waters, the tropical day, con- 

 spired to develop them. The sun was their chief deity, source of life 

 and power, so their principal chiefs were its earthly viceregents. The 

 barbarous and bloody rites of Mexico were absent, as were the graphic 

 system and the pictorial literature. But the monuments of a departed 

 glory remain. 



Conclusion. 



Did space permit, the Eastern Hemisphere might also be put upon 

 the stand as to its treatment of men and women from area to area. 

 It surely can not be an accident that, before artificialized transportation 

 interrupted the ancient regime, centers of culture and refinement sur- 

 vived for millenniums. Pastoral regions, land-locked seas, rice fields, 

 bamboo jungles, above all, granite and marble quarries, are even now 

 surviving and drawing around them the same refined spirits as of old. 



This recital would be without a moral if it did not also apply to 

 the higher, manganic, complex environments in which civilized peoples 

 are living. There are tendencies in some to degrade men, especially to 

 take from tliem that spark of originality and self-reliance which is the 

 source of virility, of progress, of family life, and to reduce them to 

 intellectual and moral peonage. This, in ways not necessary to men- 

 tion here, lowers the birth rate, doubles the death rate, degrades the 

 survivors and destroys the state. From primitive times until now there 

 never came any solid advancement to a people that had not something 

 ennobling for men and women to crave, or that sacrificed them to any 

 god or fetish whatsoever. 



