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here and there a noble few who would try 

 and probably fail, but by their failure make 

 it easy for others to march to victory? 



Human Nature is the same all the world 

 over, and the history of the Woman's 

 Movement is the history of every other 

 progressive movement. The leaders go for- 

 ward and make tracks in the dark wood for 

 themselves, but they do not see that the 

 tracks are not wide enough or smooth 

 enough for the rank and file of their 

 followers, unsustained by their own high 

 aims and lofty ideals ; therefore these lag 

 behind, making sure of a safe path by which 

 they can either return or else traverse with 

 a certain amount of ease and comfort. 

 Distressing as their slowness may be to the 

 ardent spirits in front, their mode of pro- 

 cedure is useful and sustaining to the general 

 Cause, because average everyday people do 

 not care to be whirled off their feet by the 

 glamour of a great enterprise. They prefer 

 to sit down quietly (on an eminence per- 



