--one perhaps discerns by "the spirit sense"--that this impassioned
promoter of woman's suffrage is, on the sequestered side of his life,
an idealistic dreamer: one for whom some woman's memory has become,
like Beatrice for Dante, a mystic religion.

We may now pass on to deal with the arguments by which the woman
suffragist has sought to establish her case.


PART I

ARGUMENTS WHICH ARE ADDUCED IN SUPPORT OF WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE

I

ARGUMENTS FROM ELEMENTARY NATURAL RIGHTS

Signification of the Term "Woman's Rights"--Argument from "Justice"
--Juridical Justice-"Egalitarian Equity"--Argument from Justice
Applied to Taxation--Argument from Liberty--Summary of Arguments from
Elementary Natural Rights.


Let us note that the suffragist does not--except, perhaps, when she is
addressing herself to unfledged girls and to the sexually
embittered--really produce much effect by inveighing against the legal
grievances of woman under the bastardy laws, the divorce laws, and the
law which fixes the legal age of consent. This kind of appeal does not
go down with the ordinary man and woman--first, because there are many
who think that in spite of occasional hardships the public advantage