inct account of the causes which have led to the disco-ordination in
woman's present position, or give a full account of the benefits to flow
from readjustment; as probably not one private soldier in an army of ten
or even of twenty thousand, though he is willing to give his life for
his land, would yet be able to draw up a clear and succinct account of
his land's history in the past and of the conditions which have made
war inevitable; and almost as little can he often paint an exact and
detailed picture of the benefits to flow from his efts. He knows his
land has need of him; he knows his own small place and work.

It is possible that not one woman in ten thousand has grasped with
scientific exactitude, and still less could express with verbal
sharpness, the great central conditions which yet compel and animate her
into action.

Even the great, central fact, that with each generation the entire race
passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing
with the indelible marks of that mould upon it, that as the os cervix of
woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms
a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head, a
size which could only increase if in the course of ages the os cervix of
woman should itself slowly expand; and that so exactly the intellectual
capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms
also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive
generation the limits of the expansion of the human race;--even this
fact she may not so clearly have grasped intellectually as to be able to
throw it into the form of a logical statement. The profound truth, that
the continued development of the human race on earth (a development
which, as the old myths and dreams of a narrow personal heaven fade
from our view, becomes increasingly for many of us the spiritual hope by
light of which we continue to live), a development which we hope shall
make the humanity of a distant future as much higher in intellectual
power and wider in social sympathy than the highest human units of
our day, as that is higher than the first primeval ancestor who
with quivering limb strove to walk upright and shape his lips to the
expression of a word, is possible only if the male and female halves of
humanity progress together, expanding side by side in the future as they
have done in the past--even this truth it is possible few women have
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