You observe that there are no feminine angels in heaven?
Aristippus. So much the better for us, if we have them all here.
Diogenes. For the same reason, probably, we are told that there will be neither marrying nor giving in marriage hereafter.
Aristippus. Not at all. There will be so many more women in heaven than men, that any marriage, except of the Mormon kind, would be impossible.
Diogenes.
"O, why did God
... create at last
This novelty on earth, this fair defect
Of nature?"
I have always wondered why.
Aristippus. You forget that it was Eve who first picked fruit from the tree of knowledge.
Diogenes. The only use she made of it was to get the idea of dress; and the primeval curse still clings to man, in the shape of milliners' bills.
Aristippus. Nevertheless we ought to be grateful to her for her enterprising spirit. Whatever her motives may have been, you must admit that her move was in the right direction. Where would we be now, had the future of the race been left to Adam alone? And if woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him. Every pretty girl one sees is a reminiscence of the garden of Eden.