reflect that woman does not come into consideration as a compelling
force, and that an electoral contest partakes of the nature of a civil
war, it becomes clear that to give her the parliamentary vote would be
to reduce all those trials of strength which take the form of
electoral contests to the level of a farce.

With this I have, I will not say completed the tale of the
suffragist's grievances--that would be impossible--but I have at any
rate dealt with those which she has most acrimoniously insisted upon.


III

ARGUMENTS WHICH TAKE THE FORM OF "COUNSELS OF PERFECTION" ADDRESSED TO
MAN

Argument that Woman Requires a Vote for her Protection--Argument that
Woman ought to be Invested with the Responsibilities of Voting in
Order that She May Attain Her Full Intellectual Stature.

There, however, remains still a further class of arguments. I have in
view here arguments which have nothing to do with elementary natural
rights, nor yet with wounded _amour propre._ They concern ethics, and
sympathy, and charitable feelings.

The suffragist here gives to man "counsels of perfection."

It will be enough to consider here two of these:--the _first_, the
argument that woman, being the weaker vessel, needs, more than man,
the suffrage for her _protection_; the _second_, that woman, being