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