The Spectator at war: Women and the war

From ‘Women and the War‘, The Spectator, 24 July 1915:

It is not too much to say that without the help and inspiration of the women we could not win the war. But we have had the good fortune to know from the moment that war was declared that if we did not win it would not be the fault of the women. All fears that a great war would be too nerve-shattering and too horrible for women to give their moral sanction for its continuance have been absolutely dissipated. We have heard of no single case of a woman throwing impediments in the way through a loss of nerve, or through that kind of particularism which might have been expected to make many women argue in terms of deeply moved personal affection rather than of the intellect. No woman has cried in agony that the future of the world might go hang so long as her husband or her son was safe.