Here and there, a sisterly voice responded to my appeal, but the greater number said: “We have neither time nor money that we can call our own. We cannot travel, we cannot meet together.” And so my intended Peace Congress of Women melted away like a dream, and my final meeting, held in the world's great metropolis, did not promise to lead to any important result. What has made the difference between that time and this? New things, so far as women are concerned, viz.: the higher education conceded to them, and the discipline of associated action, with which later years have made them familiar. Who shall say how great an element of progress has existed in this last clause? Who shall say what fretting of personal ambition has become merged in the higher ideal of service to the State and to the world? The noble army of women which I saw as a dream, and to which I made my appeal, has now come into being. On the wide field where the world's great citizens band together to uphold the highest interests of society, women of the same type employ their gifts and graces to the same end. Oh, happy change! Oh, glorious metamorphosis! In less than half a century the conscience of mankind has
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go. She wept with joy when I gave it up. We had a very pleasant dinner party for the Barrett Wendells with their friends, Professor Ames, of Berkeley University, California, ‘Waddy’ Longfellow, Charles Gibson, Laura, Betty, and I.
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She sent a letter to the Convention, which was read by Florence.
In this, after recalling her Peace Crusade of 1872, she said:--
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