s doing, and the value of the life she takes!
There is no light-hearted, careless enjoyment in the sacrifice of life
to the normal woman; her instinct, instructed by practical experience,
steps in to prevent it. She always knows what life costs; and that it is
more easy to destroy than create it.

It is also true, that, from the loftiest standpoint, the condemnation
of war which has arisen in the advancing human spirit, is in no sense
related to any particular form of sex function. The man and the woman
alike, who with Isaiah on the hills of Palestine, or the Indian Buddha
under his bo-tree, have seen the essential unity of all sentient
life; and who therefore see in war but a symptom of that crude
disco-ordination of life on earth, not yet at one with itself, which
affects humanity in these early stages of its growth: and who are
compelled to regard as the ultimate goal of the race, though yet perhaps
far distant across the ridges of innumerable coming ages, that harmony
between all forms of conscious life, metaphorically prefigured by the
ancient Hebrew, when he cried, "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb; and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them!"--to that
individual, whether man or woman, who has reached this standpoint, there
is no need for enlightenment from the instincts of the child-bearers of
society as such; their condemnation of war, rising not so much from the
fact that it is a wasteful destruction of human flesh, as that it is an
indication of the non-existence of that co-ordination, the harmony which
is summed up in the cry, "My little children, love one another."

But for the vast bulk of humanity, probably for generations to come, the
instinctive antagonism of the human child-bearer to reckless destruction
of that which she has at so much cost produced, will be necessary to
educate the race to any clear conception of the bestiality and insanity
of war.

War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible
to the female an equal share in the control and governance of modern
national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its
extinction will not be delayed much longer.

It is especially in the domain of war that we, the bearers of men's
bodies, who supply its most valuable munition, who, not amid the clamour
and ardour of battle, but singly, and alone, with a three-in-the-morning