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 Hermione For if Civilization dies out, what will become of us then?

Will we revert to the Primordial?

Will the Cave Man triumph?

The very idea gives me the creeps!

Because, you know, the Cave Man is all right—and the Primitive, and all that—as a protest against Decadence—and in a literary way—but if all men were Cave Men!

Well, you know, the thought is frightful; simply frightful!

You can have a feeling for just one Cave Man, you know, in the midst of Civilization, when a million Cave Men would——

But the idea is too terrible for words!

And in this crisis it is Woman who must save the world.

The loveliest woman—she's quite advanced, really, and has the most charming toilettes—told our Little Group of Serious Thinkers the other night that this is the time when Woman must rule the world.

It is the test of the New Woman.

If anything is saved from the wreck it will be because of Her.

She can write letters to the papers, you know, against war and—and all that sort of thing, you know. [48]