to do, but it will leave the world exactly where it is. Still--the
concession of votes to women is desirable from the point of view of
symmetry of classification; and it will soothe the ruffled feelings of
quite a number of very worthy women."

It may be laid down as a broad general rule that only two classes of
men have the cause of woman's suffrage really at heart.

The first is the crank who, as soon as he thinks he has discerned a
moral principle, immediately gets into the saddle, and then rides
hell-for-leather, reckless of all considerations of public expediency.

The second is that very curious type of man, who when it is suggested
in his hearing that the species woman is, measured by certain
intellectual and moral standards, the inferior of the species man,
solemnly draws himself up and asks, "Are you, sir, aware that you are
insulting my wife?"

To this, the type of man who feels every unfavourable criticism of
woman as a personal affront to himself, John Stuart Mill, had
affinities.

We find him writing a letter to the Home Secretary, informing him, in
relation to a Parliamentary Bill restricting the sale of arsenic to
male persons over twenty-one years, that it was a "gross insult to
every woman, all women from highest to lowest being deemed unfit to
have poison in their possession, lest they shall commit murder."

We find him again, in a state of indignation with the English marriage
laws, preluding his nuptials with Mrs. Taylor by presenting that lady