ABSTRACT
Hitherto when the women to whom the larger interests of Society are dear, have expressed their desire for an extension of the suffrage in their own direction they have very commonly been met by the assurance that they belonged to an insignificant minority, the active assumption of citizenship. The men whose pleasure it is to affirm that 'good women' are in want of nothing, are far however from disclaiming the testimony to the same effect of beings who cannot be called 'good,' without putting an undue strain upon language, but only the weakness and arrested development. The claim that widows and spinsters, when independent holders of property, should exercise the right of voting for Members of Parliament, carries so much of reason on its face. The woman who is loved of boy or man, unconsciously prescribes the form of her own worship, and the character of the worshipper is modified, more or less, by the result.
