But we have allowed a standard to gain recognition that is a danger alike to the dignity of our womanhood and the virility of our manhood.

It is for us who are men to labour for a finer spirit in our manhood: we cannot throw the blame for any weakness over on external conditions.

The woman is in the same position.

She must understand that greater than the need of the suffrage is the more urgent need of making her fellow-woman spirited and self-reliant, ready rather to anticipate a danger than to evade it.

When she is thus trained, not all the men of all the nations can deny her recognition and equality.
III For the battle of to-morrow then there is a preliminary fight to-day.
The woman must come to this point, too.