efficiency with which Germany breeds her swine.

Nevertheless, here, too, strong counter currents are at work. As this
is a war of nations, not of armies, it is the whole people that, in each
instance, has had to be mobilized and organized. In all the democracies
women have voluntarily risen to this need, just as citizens have
voluntarily become soldiers. Thus women, by the legion, are working in
munition factories, on the farms, in productive plants of every kind, in
public service and commerce organizations. The noble way in which women
have accepted the double burden has created a wave of reverent
admiration throughout the world. Thus where professional militarism
tends to despise the industrial activities into which it forces women,
war for defense and justice causes reverence for the same socially
necessary activities and for the women who so courageously undertake
them for the sake of all.

Moreover, the increased freedom of action for women will outlast its
temporary cause. Once so admitted to new fields of industrial, business
and professional activity, women can never be generally excluded from
them again. Thus when the soldiers become citizens, many of the women
will remain producers, working beside men under new conditions of
equality.

The result, with the general stimulation of radical thinking that the
War involves, will be a profound acceleration of the feminist movement
throughout, at least, the democracies of the world. Already it is being
recognized that all valid principles of democracy apply to women equally
with men. Regenerated, if chaotic, Russia takes for granted the farthest
reaches of feminism. The regime in England, that bitterly opposed
suffrage for women, is now voluntarily granting it before the close of