to life.

This it is also, which in spite of defects and failures on the part of
individuals, yet makes the body who these women compose, as a whole, one of
the most impressive and irresistible of modern forces. The private soldier
of the great victorious army is not always an imposing object as he walks
down the village street, cap on side of head and sword dangling between his
legs, nor is he always impressive even when he burnishes up his
accoutrements or cleans his pannikins; but it is of individuals such as
these that the great army is made, which tomorrow, when it is gathered
together, may shake the world with its tread.

Possibly not one woman in ten, or even one woman in twenty thousand among
those taking part in this struggle, could draw up a clear and succinct
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