This responsibility required a preparation entirely different from that which had been hers.

She must be given education and liberty.

The woman saw this, and the story of her efforts to secure both, that she might meet the requirements, is one of the noblest in history.

There was no doubt, then, as to the value of the tasks, no question as to their being worthy national obligations.

It was a question of fitting herself for them.
But what has happened?
In the process of preparing herself to discharge more adequately her task as a woman in a republic, her respect for the task has been weakened.