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educated women become very great. They 

 must " live for posterity," and with their own 

 lives and by their own work make it possible 

 for their successors to build straight away 

 on their foundations, and not be obliged to 

 dig new ones. This ideal presupposes a 

 band of women of high purpose and strong 

 aims, and indeed they are required ; there- 

 fore let the average girl, who thinks she is 

 fond of a country life, sit down thoughtfully 

 and count the cost of the step she is under- 

 taking. It is of no use to obtain the money 

 for her training which in some cases is a 

 matter of considerable difficulty- and then 

 half way through, or even at the end, throw it 

 all up, and take to nursing, or cooking, or some- 

 thing else equally remote from her original 

 aim. 



The higher In the early days of the movement, women 



a "forlorn who had failed at everything else, seemed to 



think that a very definite chance of success 



was now open to them. Elderly ladies, who 



had brought up families, tried a Short Course 



