In the autobiography of that high-souled woman, mrs. annie besant, I read the following passage: "Plenty of people wish well to any good cause, but very few care to exert themselves to help it, and still fewer will risk anything in its support. "Someone ought to do it, but why should I? is the ever re-echoed phrase of weak-kneed amiability. 'Someone ought to do it, so why not I?' is the cry of some earnest servant of man, eagerly forward springing to face some perilous duty. Between these two centuries lie whole centuries of moral evolution."