If women would not to the end of time work blindly, leaning on others for knowledge of the engine, how to repair it, how to drive it, they will be obliged to study the relation of the parts to the whole. Hardly a woman in these days but belongs to leagues, societies, boards, associations. Nobody denies that on every side magnificent isolated efforts are made by this group and by that to serve the nation. We know of the striking inital success that devotion and hard work have achieved. For instance, women at great cost have procured some piece of legislation, such as the passing of the Mental Deficiency Bill.
Women are deeply concerned with both the theory and the practice of education.
Women teachers have done all they can to secure this measure. They thought that by putting in bolt seventeen they would be able to drive the engine. Again and again they have failed. Much preached as it has been, women have hardly begun to realise the power of co-operation, nor the waste of time, energy, money, life itself, in unrelated effort. The ever clearer apprehension of these truths by a certain class of men may cause public affairs to move with the irrestiable, Revolutionary quickness along the line of governance by and through industrial power.