Fis Opening Lecture in Manchester and How the C.0.'s Received it: to a Man Union Correspondent. privilege of either hearing about China, or doing homage to the great Bertrand. Three quarters of them were women, for now the war is over the young men have not been long in severing their connexion with the society *hat provided the skirts behind which they hid so ignominiously. It was a remarkable gathering in the difference there were between the women and the few men they had brought with them. The women were of the capable, managing kind; considerably finer types than the average. A little reflexion served to explain.this. The better type of women are instinctively antipathetic to war. Their predilection is to preserve life not to destroy it, and if they push this attitude to an illogical extreme it is even then less objectionable than a bias in the other direction.
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