Thus, for instance, that not very unusual type of spinster who is in a
condition of retarded development (and you will find this kind of
woman even on County Council's), is completely unconscious of the
sexual element in herself and in human nature generally. Nay, though
one went from the dead, he could not bring it home to her that
unsatisfied sexuality is an intellectual disability.

Sufficient illustration will now have been given of woman's incapacity
to take a complete or objective view of any matter in which she has a
personal, or any kind of emotional interest; and this would now be the
place to discuss those other aspects of her mind which are relevant to
her claim to the suffrage. I refer to her logical endowment and her
political sagacity.

All that I might have been required to say here on these issues has,
however, already been said by me in dealing with the arguments of the
suffragist. I have there carefully written it in between the lines.

One thing only remains over.--We must, before we pass on, consider
whether woman has really, as she tells us, given earnest for the
future weeding out of these her secondary sexual characters, by making
quite phenomenal advances within the lifetime of the present
generation; and, above all, whether there is any basis for woman's
confident assurance that, when for a few generations she shall have
enjoyed educational advantages, she will at any rate pull up level
with man.

The vision of the future may first engage our attention; for only this
roseate prospect makes of any man a feminist.