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e back again to the individual. When you think of education schemes, and schemes for teaching national service to the young, of work to teach care and thrift, you are back again to the problem of creating character. When you go into the great world of industry and its problems, of care of the workers in health and sickness, of securing justice and full opportunities, of developing and wisely using our resources, again you return to the individual. When you want to make the art and beauty of life accessible to all, you come back to the question as to the individual's desire for it and appreciation of it. Schemes in theory may be perfect--reconstruction may be planned without a flaw--but what does that help if we as individuals are blind and selfish? The regeneration of the world cannot come from the sacrifice of our men alone, or even of some of us at home. The few may save countries and do great things, but the work of reconstruction rests on everybody. Nations are made up of individuals, and a nation cannot hope for moral and social regeneration except through individual self-denial, self-sacrifice and service. It is in our own hearts and our own minds that the great task of reconstruction must be done. The greatest task of reconstruction for most of us is to make all our actions worthy of our highest self--to bring to the problems that confront us, not one detached and prejudiced bit of us, but the whole mind and spirit of ourselves--the best of us always in unity. That is life's greatest task, and calls for all we have to give, and all we are. There lies true reconstruction and the hope of all the world. APPENDIX APPENDIX American Women's War Relief Fund, 123 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1. Association of Infant Consultation and Schools for Mothers, 4 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1. British Women's Hospital, Bond Street, London, W. 1. Glove Waistcoat Society, 75 Chancery Lane, E.C. 4. Ministry of Food, Mrs. Pember Reeves, Mrs. C.S. Peel, Grosvenor House, W. 1. National Federation of Women's Workers. Women's Trade Union League, 34 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C. 1. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Scottish Women's Hospitals, 62 Oxford Street, W.C. 1. Women's Interests Committee, 62 Oxford Street, W.C.I. National War Savings Committee, Salisbury Square, E.C. 4. National Union of Women Workers (Women Patrols), Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street
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