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ON VOTES FOR WOMEN
therefore that to thrust political power or—in theory at least—political supremacy upon a body of women who have not as yet acquired as a class the civic virtues which the experience and the labours of centuries have even now developed but imperfectly among ordinary men is, on the very face of the matter, an act of portentous recklessness. But here I pass to another subject—the direct objections to the bestowal of Parliamentary votes upon women. This I reserve for another letter.
