Aggression is our inheritance. Combat is the command of our blood. There is enough heroism in America today panting for opportunity to make history for a hundred worlds during a hundred ages. Part of this is due to liberty. Liberty is the opportunity and command for every individual to assert his cause.
Assertion means combat.
Frances E. Willard was all of this. Her entire life was one long campaign. Her warfare was as real as Gettysburg. The incident of bloodshed is not essential. And she died as history would have had her die, leading a forlorn hope to discharge a duty which only an angel's conscience could perceive to be a duty.