A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 10

A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

OUR POWER. Professor Shelley quoted Benjamin Kidd at the Avonside Girls’ High School break-up. I know not whether to be pleased or displeased, for though Benjamin Kidd is indeed a champion of women he has laid a fearful responsibility at our door. It is like this. Men have ruled their own way for so long and at last they are beginning to realise that it has not been such a frantic success. They look about them, and they analyse woman. They see that our good qualities have been overlooked. Kidd writes: “It is not in the fighting male of the race, it is in the woman that we have to look for the future of power in civilisation.” Even Ruskin in his day said: “There is not a war in the world, no, nor an injustice, but you women are answerable for it; not in that you have provoked, but in that you have not hindered.” Now, I a sic. you, do they merely flatter us, or . . .? Ah me, but it is a responsibility! B.E.S.