e contrary is the truth.

"It is in behalf of morals, and for the sake of imparting a higher tone
to the feelings of society, that the present unnatural system should be
abolished. Where, what Milton calls, an unconjugal mind exists, there
must be unconjugal manners; and to what these lead no one need be told.
Where marriage is indissoluble, people presume upon that fact to
transgress its laws, which they would not do were it legally
practicable to obtain immediate redress.

"However, there is a great indisposition in mankind to innovate in
legislation; and they had generally rather be miserable according to
rule than free and happy on a novel principle.... Whenever it clearly
appears that man and wife can no longer live together in peace and
harmony, their separation would be far more beneficial to themselves and
favorable to morals, than their compulsory union. Milton's notions of
married life are highly flattering to women, whom he evidently
contemplates as the equal companions of men."

PAGE 156.

"_Give her the suffrage._"

In one of his pamphlets in behalf of women's suffrage, Professor F. W.
Newman of England, a man of widest culture and noblest sympathies, and
always among the ablest and foremost in good works, remarks: "It is
useless to reply that women have not political knowledge. Hitherto they
have had little motive to acquire it. But how much of such knowledge
have those male voters had, whom, for two hundred years past, candidates
for the place of M. P. have made drunk in the tippling-houses? The
arguments used against female suffrage simply show that there is nothing
valid to be said. Women have, _prima facie_, the same right as men."

PAGE 160.

"_Not by evading or profaning Nature_."

In his recent "History of European Morals," Mr. Lecky, referring to the
fact that the prevalent doctrine is, that the very highest interest of
society is not to stimulate but to restrain multiplication, diminishing
the number of marriages and of children, presents the following
comments:--

"In consequence of this belief, and of the many factitious wants that
accompany a luxurious civilization, a very large and increasing
proportion of women are left to make their way in life without any male
protector, and the difficulties they have to encounter through physical
weakness have been most unnaturally and most fearfully aggravated by
laws and customs which, resting on the old assumption that every woman
should