ABSTRACT
H. H. Asquith had served as Liberal Prime Minister of England from 1908 to 1916. The Power that governs the earth is not the Power of Life but of Death; and the inner need that has nerved Life to the effort of organizing itself into the human being is not the need for higher life but a more efficient engine of destruction. The directing classes in the modern world have to be frightened, bullied, shocked before they stir themselves out of their office routine and their dinner party program to a recognition of the simplest and most obvious things. It takes a threat of strikes to win recognition for labor, a world-wide convulsion to attract attention to the needs of oppressed peoples, the agony of war to convince Mr. Asquith that women belong to the modern industrial state.
