esson of all is that women and men must work
together in this new world. I count it an honour--being a man--to be
asked to introduce Miss Fraser in this way to the American public.
For my part I would have no separate women's division, except such
as concerns the tasks exclusively for women. I would have women side
by side with men in every division of labour, working out the task
with equal fidelity, equal authority, and equal rewards. One of the
results of this amazing age is going to be the new comprehension,
understanding, and sympathy of the one sex for the other.

H.N. MacCRACKEN.
Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York.
January 11, 1918.

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The women of all the allies are one in this great struggle. Our hopes
and our fears, our anxieties and our prayers, our visions and our
desolations, are the same.

Our work is the same task of supporting and sustaining the energies of
our men in arms and of our nations at home. All the allied women know
more of each other than they ever did before, and this is all to the
good.

The task of women in this struggle and in the reconstruction to come
after, are great tasks, and the world needs in every country not only
the wisdom and knowledge of its own women but the strength in them
that comes from being one of a great world-wide group and conscious of
the unity of all women.

Anything that can help to that unity and understanding seems to me of
great value, and this record is written for American women in the hope
it may be of some small service.

H.F.
December 25, 1917.

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THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN

"I have no fear nor shrinking. I have seen death so often that
it is not strange or fearful to me.... I thank God for this
ten weeks' quiet before the end. Life has always been hurried
and full of difficulty. This time of rest has been a great
mercy. They have all been very kind to me here. But this I
would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I
realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred
or bitterness towards anyone."

--EDITH CAVELL's last message.

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CHAPTER I

THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN

TO WOMEN

Your hearts a