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own quality, its own superiority over the 

 other, but uses this to develop the other. 

 The natural courage of the youth was not 

 only developed by the danger of the quest, 

 but refined by its discipline and patience. 

 For the woman also this meant more than 

 affection and constancy : for she might be 

 not his love, but his lady only, the serene 

 expression of his ideals or their arousing 

 voice, and thus not only suggest his general 

 line of action, but keep up his moral attitude 

 in it. We are here reaching the fullest ideal 

 of the woman-worker she who works not 

 merely or mainly for men as the help and 

 instrument of their purpose, but who works 

 with men as the instrument yet material of 

 her purpose. 



COURAGE AND KINDNESS. What to aim at 

 is clear, namely to set before man-child and 

 maid-child, before lad and lass, man and 

 woman, the elemental ideals of the sexes, of 

 courage and affection. Let them, get them, 

 set them to keep these respective ideals before 

 each other. And so animal masculine courage 

 combines with affection to rise into chivalry, 

 magnanimous to others ; the instinctive femi- 

 nine affection rises through gain of courage 

 into purity, reverential of self. 



How work this out in detail ? It is incipient 

 wherever children meet at play. Here and 

 there a woman is sometimes facing it in her 

 kindergarten; a schoolmaster in his athletic 

 field, in his boy-scouts; but the elaboration, 

 the development, the organisation of all this 

 is the highest task of educators, of men and 

 women mutually trained and strengthened. 



