policies and her predictions on every point vindicated before
their eyes.

She has been a master at concentration, a master strategist-a
great general. With passionate beliefs on all important social
questions, she resolutely set herself against being seduced into
other paths. Far from being naturally an ascetic, she has
disciplined herself into denials and deprivations, cultural and
recreational, to pursue her objective with the least possible
waste of energy. Not that she did not want above all else to do
this thing. She did. But doing it she had to abandon the easy
life of a scholar and the aristocratic environment of a cultured,
prosperous, Quaker family, of Moorestown, New Jersey, for the
rigors of a ceaseless drudgery and frequent imprisonment. A
flaming idealist, conducting the fight with the sternest kind of
realism, a mind attracted by facts, not fancies, she has led
fearlessly and with magnificent ruthlessness. Think-

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ing, thinking day and night of her objective and never retarding
her pace a moment until its accomplishment, I know no modern
woman leader with whom to compare her. I think she must possess
many of the same qualities that Lenin does, according to
authentic portraits of him-cool, practical, rational, sitting
quietly at a desk and counting the consequences, planning the
next move before the first one is finished. And if she has
demanded the ultimate of her followers, she has given it herself.
Her ability to get women to work and never to let them stop is
second only to her own unprecedented capacity for work.