in the Appendix (_ vide_ p.167 _infra_).

In order to satisfy the physical yearning for such comforts, a
considerable section of intelligent and virtuous women insist on
picturing to themselves that the reign of physical force is over, or as
good as over; that distinctions based upon physical and intellectual force
may be reckoned as non-existent; that male supremacy as resting upon these
is a thing of the past; and that Justice means Egalitarian Equity--means
equating the weaklings with the strong and the incapable with the capable.

All this because these particular ideas are congenial to the woman of
refinement, and because it is to her, when she is a suffragist,
uncongenial that there should exist another principle of justice which
demands from the physically and intellectually capable that they shall
retain the reins of government in their own hands; and specially
uncongenial that in all man-governed States the ideas of justice of
the more forceful should have worked out so much to the advantage of
women, that a large majority of these are indifferent or actively
hostile to the Woman's Suffrage Movement.

In further illustration of what has been said above, it may be pointed
out that woman, even intelligent woman, nurses all sorts of
misconceptions about herself. She, for instance, is constantly
picturing to herself that she can as a worker lay claim to the same
all-round efficiency as a man--forgetting that woman is notoriously
unadapted to tasks in which severe physical hardships have to be
confronted; and that hardly any one would, if other alternative
offered, employ a woman in any work which imposed upon her a combined
physical and mental strain, or in any work where emergencies might
have to be faced.