Excerpt from The Year Book of Nineteen-Thirty-Three Wise were you when you searched the seas and mountains, the sands Of desert and the fruitful valleys, and brought back not a jaguar, not an emu, but a man - O noble virgins!
It is in humility before you, then, that we who chronicle these few brief moments Of your lives, dedicate ourselves to the cult Of that human race. True, our pens are chained, our eyesight hindered, by the limits of our experience; this worldin which we forage for scraps Of insight is a tiny world, cloistered from the rough winds Of commerce and war but even so, perhaps this one Slight glimpse Of one Slight aspect of our subject may assist you in your researches. What is set down in these pages is tendered with modesty and a true scientific passion for data. You guessed as much, didn t you, when we sent you those questionnaires? 'o noble virgins!
Our chief regret, of many which obstruct the even tenor Of our sleep, is that the data we have Obtained concerns not man, but woman! Bear with us, dears, and remember that even woman may be a noble subject! Perhaps the abstractions which we present here may be of assistance to you, when, your loins girded and your tools at hand, you face the world from Rockefeller Arch, and begin your ordained work. Remember, too, that these abstractions constitute a chart Of one rib of that great Adam you are to explore. O noble virgins!
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