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

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A Short History of Women's Rights