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WOMAN'S DISABILITY IN THE MATTER OF PHYSICAL FORCE


International Position of State would be Imperilled by Woman's Suffrage—Internal Equilibrium of State would be Imperilled.


The woman suffrage movement has now gone too far to be disposed of by the overthrow of its arguments, and by a mere indication of those which could be advanced on the other side. The situation demands the bringing forward of the case against woman's suffrage; and it must be the full and quite unexpurgated case.

I shall endeavour to do this in the fewest possible words, and to be more especially brief where I have to pass again over ground which I have previously traversed in dealing with the arguments of the suffragists.

I may begin with what is fundamental.

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