conceived how alien."

There are men who, from motives of delicacy or policy, do not speak
out--averse to saying anything that might be unflattering to woman.

And there are men who are by their profession of the feminist faith
debarred from speaking out, but who upon occasion give themselves
away.

Of such is the man who in the House of Commons champions the cause of
woman's suffrage, impassionately appealing to Justice; and then
betrays himself by announcing that he would shake off from his feet
the dust of its purlieus if ever women were admitted as
members--_i.e._ if ever women were forced upon _him_ as close
intellectual associates.

Wherever we look we find aversion to compulsory intellectual
co-operation with woman. We see it in the sullen attitude which the
ordinary male student takes up towards the presence of women students
in his classes. We see it in the fact that the older English
universities, which have conceded everything else to women, have made
a strong stand against making them actual members of the university;
for this would impose them on men as intellectual associates. Again we
see the aversion in the opposition to the admission of women to the
bar. But we need not look so far afield. Practically every man feels
that there is in woman--patent, or hidden away--an element of unreason
which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely
intellectual intercourse. One may reflect, for example, upon the way
the woman's suffrage controversy has been conducted.