New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
BY ELLEN KEY.
PARTII

s-yrish; ls-'- '.0
" ere medieval tale Of the battle on
r.. Californian fields, where armies
s.b.;nr in the air were seen above the
s,..ac or earth, so the oleaT-sighted
,soye the nations numbering each
The wo-ld-war q slant struggle be
go, obilosophies OF life. They arc the
,...b have divided the nations OF the
|. s.. the days Of Cain and Abel the phi
| - # Ike which looks without and the
| .s locks within. All important cultural
| -,. .oos place after the internal power
| r-.doss over the external after the
rsr,a itself stronger than the soul.
a.a,s Of Europe depends now on the
..... Of this invisible strife. But the
q. Of the struggle depends to a large
mon the philosophy OF life that the
p. embrace. If they by means OF the OK
power attempt the happiness Of their
q Their country, o: their race; il they
II, present reality TO persuade them
Fl, j. III. reality that is going to remain
y by the fame of the worlds holocaust
=, that they have ged.scOvered the fool
., n what the -.dcalsts" and the "Utopi-
antiquity. in medieval and in modern
:,.a-sd to be peace on earth; II they in
rue pi,tures Of tie friends Of peace only
azes OF GASES. because reality to-day no
q a5crs palm-shaded springs 10 those who
- aat thirst after righteousness then
,--ari,y has in d double sense been bled
a- CT the battlefield and humanity. which
f, the wolld-waT nas been outraged a
ss,3 tines by men, wlll no longer ind a
among women.
ii such q case. even the women Will
., destined by the social philosophy OF
lay and plutocracy clericalism and bu-
cay, national esousm and nihilism, to
against the social philosophy which Will
wogrsss according TO patriotic. demo
paciacist. socialistic and individualistic
a,es. Tor the reasons that these are the
.,ss that will lead humanity TO scl'-re-
-.l within and between nations.
SPIRITUAL ERA POSSIBLE.
question IT what way women are gong TO
80; influence after the end Of the world
'-l be determined as other human ltc
s-s only after the end of the world-war'
tscone can be such that Europe Will dc
"a tie next decades only upon a material
ass for the development of national
's The outcome can also be such that
10y will perceive 70 what an extraordi-
y :geei has departed from the spiritual
@9 is excessive abandonment to mag
~ na,erialistic development.
''aay may perhaps begin TO seek the
IS between action and contemplation,
'''@ sound conservatism to all eternal
- ai sound radicalism TO the destruc-
: q al worn-out forms in which these
q lave been placed; the synthesis between
''2-en, and a limitation OF self which tor
S-''tual, for the nation and for the race
x 'Aiulate ior GENERALIZATION in spirit and
i such a philosophy will govern the
: A'n the women will attain the balance
g ne Martha and Mary lives which they
''S curing the preceding development
- often been called reactionary by lem
"a'n l pointed out that the women
''''N the whole present day materialisuc
S'lSn and industralism have been eX-
NE same danger as men; namely,
cultivate the inner life. Now II ever,
s'' 70 understand that neither men nor
/ '''0ne real human beings through their
/ "oFk, through social activity, or by
| cultural values The men Of the bleed
l., %'S Of Europe are no longer crude pro
b. soldiers; no, they belong to all
\, i. manual and intellectual workers, yet
e0'ihed culture humanized them to
''"' Of checking their violent deeds by
\. '0ny accepted national standards
women in all their social work be-
numanized that they have risen
y. ne sins Of their own na,ions2
sum has been used against bodily
Wy the malaria OF hatred and re-