five piasters, in faith, is a hero, like him who sacrifices thousands. And he who sacrifices an hour of his day for the general good, seeking nothing but the good itself, is a hero like him who sacrifices his life for his homeland, or for his people, or for God.
Of old, the widow's mite was counted more precious than... the rich man's dinar; for her sacrifice of that penny, despite her desperate need of it, is a heroism equal to the heroism of one who sacrifices hundreds of coins — dear to him, in any case, as they are.
And the scholars of society and morals tell us: the needle, if the "seamstress" gives it away in charity — it being her tool of work and of livelihood — equals the almsgiving of the well-to-do in their thousands of liras!
Let us not say, then: what have we to do with sacrifice, we who are not equal to it... we are small, or we are poor, or we are weak. For the very little of our sacrifices equals the much, in kind; and when it is gathered together, it comes to equal the very much in quantity as well. Fire was, and still is, kindled from the smallest of sparks — exactly like the rivers and the seas: they were formed, and are formed still, from drops of rain.
How shall we revive the spirit of heroism
And now you are asking yourselves, no doubt, how we are to revive that spirit in our souls, after we have shunned it for so long a time — a time, perhaps, equal to the age of decadence through which our nation passed. Nay, why should I not speak the whole truth, naked and entire: that spirit forsook us from the day woman among us came down from the throne of the "Mother" who fashions men,
to the low estate of the "female" who bears children!
I say this, and I beg your pardon, ladies, for the bitterness and pain it holds. For I believe
that the Mother is behind every upward movement in the nation, and that she is likewise behind every downward movement. This is a truth that admits no doubt and bears no dispute. Napoleon
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