ABSTRACT
Hence so long as militancy predominates, the constitution of the State must be one in which the ordinary citizen is subject either to an autocrat or to an oligarchy out of which an autocrat tends continually to arise. Ordinarily the militant type of society is developed more by offensive wars than by defensive wars; and where this is the case, the accompanying constitution of the State has no ethical warrant. The forms of government appropriate to existing civilized societies must be transitional forms. The comparative impulsiveness of women is a trait which would make increase of their influence an injurious factor in legislation. Another trait of nature by which women are distinguished, arises by adjustment, not to the maternal relation but to the marital relation.
