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has told us, ultimately depends. I am not quite sure that in the end we

administered justice, but certainly employers, trades-unionists, and arbitrators were all convinced that justice will have to be established in

industrial affairs with the same care and patience which has been necessary for centimes in order to institute it in men's civic relationships,

although as the judge remarked the search must be conducted without

much help from precedent. The conviction remained with me, that

however long a time might be required to establish justice in the new

relationships of our raw industrialism, it would never be stable until it

had received the sanction of those upon whom the present situation

presses so harshly.

Towards the end of our four years' course we debated much as to

what we were to be, and long before the end of my school days it was

quite settled in my mind that I should study medicine and "live with

the poor.'' Tfiis conclusion of course was the result of many things,

perhaps epitomized in my graduating essay on "Cassandra'' and her

tragic fate "always to he in the right, and always to he disbelieved and

rejected."

This state of affairs, it may readily be guessed, the essay held to he

an example of the feminine trait of mind called intuition, "an accurate

perception of Truth and Justice, which rests contented in itself and

will make no effort to confirm itself or to organize through existing

knowledge." The essay then proceeds —I am forced to admit, with

overmuch conviction —with the statement that woman can only

"grow accurate and intelligible by the thorough study of at least one

branch of physical science, for only with eyes thus accustomed to the

search for truth can she detect all self-deceit and fancy in herself and

learn to express herself without dogmatism." So much for the first part

of the thesis. Having thus "gained accuracy, would woman bring this

force to hear throughout morals and justice, then she must find in active labor the promptings and inspirations that come from growing insight." I was quite certain that by following these directions carefully,

in the end the contemporary woman would find "her faculties clear

and acute from the study of science, and her hand upon the magnetic

chain of humanity."

This veneration for science portrayed in my final essay was doubtless

the result of the statements the textbooks were then making of what

was called the theory of evolution, the acceptance of which even