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CHAPTER IX

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

The five arguments commonly used against equal suffrage-

-The

theological--The physiological--The social or political-

-The

intellectual--The moral--Lecky on the nature of women--

The old and the

new conception--Thomas on the power of custom--Taboo--

All evolution

accompanied by some extravagance--Macaulay on liberty--

The double

standard of morality--Co-operation--The proper sphere for a human

being--Discrepancies of wages--Legal evolution in the interpretation of

labour laws--The alarmist view of divorce CHAPTER X

FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS

The rapid spread of suffrage throughout the world--Table of suffrage

gains from early times to present date--In national politics in the

United States--Attack on the suffrage parade and colloquy between Mr.

Hobson and Mr. Mann on the subject--Suffrage amendment defeated in the

Senate--Mr. Heflin's remarks in the House--Mr. Falconer replies--President Wilson refuses to take a stand--

Amendment lost--Mr.

Bryan on suffrage--Examples of legislation to protect women passed

recently--The tendency is to complete equality of the sexes--Suffrage in

England--A delayed reform in divorce--Women's rights on the

Continent--Especially in Germany--Schopenhauer's views of women--Further

remarks on the philosophy of suffrage--"Woman's sphere"-

-Ultimate

results of women entering all businesses and professions--Feminism--The

home is not necessarily every woman's sphere and neither is motherhood

nor is it her congenital duty to make herself attractive to

men--Unreasonableness of gratuitous advice to women and none to

men--What we don't know--Fallacy of the argument that the fall of the

Roman Empire was due to the liberty given to woman--

Official organs of

various suffrage societies

INDEX

A Short History of Women's Rights