Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 154
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[Page 154]
[Act V, Scene 2; Lines 57-58, 68-71 and 95-97:]
"Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country."
"King Hy.
If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
With full accord to all our just demands
"... Our cousin Katherine, here with us,
She is our capital demand, comprised
Within the forefront of our articles."
How true today of the fair land of France? But a German is the devastor and the aggressor. No sequel will follow of a German King or Prince making demand for a womans hand as a sine qua non wherewith to stop the war.
The same fertile feilds, as so oft before in the centuries that have gone, are the place of carnage where grim visaged war holds sway. Alas in this 20th Century man is as ever, prepared to fight for right or a grand mistake, for women or territory. There be some good people, in Sydney they were but few months or years back, who formed themselves into a Peace Society, their act of faith being:– "Men & women are becoming too civilised to ever again make war, or kill one another for any purpose". The leaders were that dear good lady, ever ready to fight for a cause, named Miss Rose Scott; and Mr Holman, champion fighting politician and statesman. Many a time did I amuse
[Rose Scott (1847-1925), feminist, pacifist, law reformer and women's activist, was born in Singleton, NSW. She was a founding member of the Women's Literary Society (1889) and founding secretary of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales (1891). David Scott Mitchell, whose collection forms the basis of the Mitchell Library, part of the State Library of NSW, was her cousin.
William Arthur Holman, MLA (1871-1934), 19th Premier of New South Wales.]