Is there, indeed, this glad hope of things changing? Changing? They have got to change. The weeds of our mistakes have so grown up that they are choking us. Yes, whether from inside or from out, I do not know yet, but there is change and awakening coming. Motherhood will triumph. Life is going to be made new before long.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The Position of Women in Primitive Society.
[2] See note at the end of the chapter.
[3] The number recorded as killed up to November 9, 1914, was 109,723.
[4] H. G. Wells, Mankind in the Making, p. 88.
[5] The towns with the highest percentages are as follow: Morley 31, Chadderton 32, Bacup 38, Stockton 34, Liverpool 38, Salford 32, Stockport 39, Mansfield 49.
[6] These quotations are taken from the Report of the Board of Education, p. 70.