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over which no feeble human ward has any power, and which can only be cast out by the transforming power of God's grace. Therefore to men and women everywhere who love a fair deal, and are willing to give it to everyone, even women, this book is respectfully dedicated by the author. NELLIE L. McCLUNG. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS II. THE WAR THAT ENDS IN EXHAUSTION SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR PEACE III. WHAT DO WOMEN THINK OF WAR? (NOT THAT IT MATTERS) IV. SHOULD WOMEN THINK? V. THE NEW CHIVALRY VI. HARDY PERENNIALS! VII. GENTLE LADY VIII. WOMEN AND THE CHURCH IX. THE SORE THOUGHT X. THE LAND OF THE FAIR DEAL XI. AS A MAN THINKETH XII. THE WAR AGAINST GLOOM IN TIMES LIKE THESE CHAPTER I THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS If, at last the sword is sheathed, And men, exhausted, call it peace, Old Nature wears no olive wreath, The weapons change--war does not cease. The little struggling blades of grass That lift their heads and will not die, The vines that climb where sunbeams pass, And fight their way toward the sky! And every soul that God has made, Who from despair their lives defend And struggling upward through the shade, Break every bond that will not bend, These are the soldiers, unafraid In the great war that has no end. We will begin peaceably by contemplating the world of nature, trees and plants and flowers, common green things against which there is no law--for surely there is no corruption in carrots, no tricks in turnips, no mixed motive in marigolds. To look abroad upon a peaceful field drowsing in the sunshine, lazily touched by a wandering breeze, no one would suspect that any struggle was going on in the tiny hearts of the flowers and grasses. The lilies of the field have long ago been said to toil not, neither spin, and the inference has been that they in common with all other flowers and plants lead a "lady's life," untroubled by any thought of ambition or activity. The whole world of nature seems to present a perfect picture of obedience and peaceful meditation. But for all their quiet innocent ways, every plant has one ambition and will attain it by any means. Plants have one ambition, and therein they have the advantage of us, who sometimes have too many, and sometimes none at all! Their ambition is to grow--to spread--to travel--to get away from home. Home is
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