cannot lay rough hands on love. With Leo, I would make the way easy for the woman, and I would be very gentle with her.”

“Then what becomes of your boasted monogamic marriage institution of Western civilization?” Dar Hyal asked.

And Hancock: “You argue for free love, then?”

“I can only answer with a hackneyed truism,” Dick said. “There can be no love that is not free. Always, please, remember the point of view is that of the higher types. And the point of view answers you, Dar. The vast majority of individuals must be held to law and labor by the monogamic institution, or by a stern, rigid marriage institution of some sort. They are unfit for marriage freedom or love freedom. Freedom of love, for them,