that generalisation will go forward shorn of some, or perchance all,
its authority.

But in any case each individual generalisation must be referred
further.

And at the end it will, according as it finds, or fails to find,
acceptance among the thoughtful, be endorsed as a truth, and be
gathered into the garner of human knowledge; or be recognised as an
error, and find its place with the tares, which the householder, in
time of the harvest, will tell the reapers to bind in bundles to burn
them.

A. E. W.
1913.



INTRODUCTION

Programme of this Treatise--Motives from which Women Claim the
Suffrage--Types of Men who Support the Suffrage--John Stuart Mill.

The task which I undertake here is to show that the Woman's Suffrage
Movement has no real intellectual or moral sanction, and that there
are very weighty reasons why the suffrage should not be conceded to
woman.

I would propose to begin by analysing the mental attitude of those who
range themselves on the side of woman suffrage, and then to pass on to