I speak to you, Indian women, who are enlightened and educated past the demands of custom, you who have cut yourselves free from the chains that bound, and have claimed the education and the freedom which the West has brought here, to our very doors in our Indian homes. I speak to you. For already there is stirring in you the feeling that you are responsible for the health of those who are dependent upon you; and more, that you are responsible for the wider family of race, and of what we hope in time to count an Indian nation.
What are you going to do about this?
What are we going to do about this? For I am with you. And with you, together with the debt I owe to England, and to what England has had to teach me, I owe this to India, as part of that English debt of mine.
You and I are trustees, are we not pledged to our knowledge of what neglect
