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I have experienced. I now want to take a place which up to the present, I have ignored. I wish to have a certain power, and to have that power, I must be someone, not only through my private or artistic life, but through the influence, which by reason of my position, I can exert.

X There are two sides to the presentation of my idea: The big war side, the universal interests and forces which have been called into action through the great war, and the smaller but none the less strong point of dealing with the sick. On this subject I should know something. I should have a general and broad idea of the work that is being done and a specific and personal knowledge of that part of it which I [[underline]] have seen [[/underline]]. As to this there can be no doubt. Something between the two there is also, the effect which this side of it made on the big subject, the international importance of the sympathy as expressed by one nation to another.

As I look back and try to size up the particular effect the experience abroad has had on me, I feel something very strongly - a bigger interest