The regeneration of the world cannot come from the sacrifice of our men alone, or even of some of us at home. The few may save countries and do great things, but the work of reconstruction rests on everybody. Nations are made up of individuals, and a nation cannot hope for moral and social regeneration except through individual self-denial, self-sacrifice and service.
It is in our own hearts and our own minds that the great task of reconstruction must be done.
The greatest task of reconstruction for most of us is to make all our actions worthy of our highest self—to bring to the problems that confront us, not one detached and prejudiced bit of us, but the whole mind and spirit of ourselves—the best of us always in unity.
That is life's greatest task, and calls for all we have to give, and all we are. There lies true reconstruction and the hope of all the world.
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American Women's War Relief Fund, 123 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1.
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