"Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man!"

One word more I should like to add, as I may not again speak or write on
this subject. I should like to say to the men and women of the generations
which will come after us--"You will look back at us with astonishment! You
will wonder at passionate struggles that accomplished so little; at the, to
you, obvious paths to attain our ends which we did not take; at the
intolerable evils before which it will seem to you we sat down passive; at
the great truths staring us in the face, which we failed to see; at the
truths we grasped at, but could never quite get our fingers round. You
will marvel at the labour that ended in so little--but, what you will never
know is how it was thinking of you and for you, that we struggled as we did
and accomplished the little which we have done; that it was in the thought
of your larger realisation and fuller life, that we found consolation for
the futilities of our own."

"What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me."

O.S.


Chapter I. Parasitism.

In that clamour which has arisen in the modern world, where now this, and
then that, is demanded for and by large bodies of modern women, he who
listens carefully may detect as a keynote, beneath all the clamour, a
demand which may be embodied in such a cry as this: Give us labour and the
training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone,
but for the race.