and, _secondly_, by steady leaving out of sight that logical
inconsistencies can, for the more part, be got rid of only at the
price of bringing others into being.

The man who looks forward to the intellectual development of woman
must be brought near to despair when he perceives that practically
every woman suffragist sees in every hard case arising in connexion
with a legal distinction affecting woman, an insult and example of the
iniquity of man-made laws, or a logical inconsistency which could with
a very little good-will be removed.

We have come now to the last item on our list, to the grievance that
woman has to submit herself to "_man-made laws_."

This is a grievance which well rewards study. It is worth study from
the suffragist point of view, because it is the one great injury under
which all others are subsumed. And it is worth studying from the
anti-suffragist point of view, because it shows how little the
suffragist understands of the terms she employs; and how unreal are
the wrongs which she resents.

Quite marvelously has the woman suffragist in this connexion
misapprehended; or would she have us say misrepresented?

The woman suffragist misapprehends--it will be better to assume that
she "misapprehends"--when she suggests that we, the male electors,
have framed the laws.

In reality the law which we live under--and the law in those States
which have adopted either the English, or the Roman law--descends from