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THE CASE AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE
approaching extinction of a woman's reproductive faculty.
No man can close his eyes to these things; but he does not feel at liberty to speak of them.
For the woman that God gave him is not his to give away.
As for woman herself, she makes very light of any of these mental upsettings.
She perhaps smiles a little at them. … [1]
None the less, these upsettings of her mental equilibrium are the things that a woman has most cause to fear; and no doctor can ever lose sight of the fact that the mind of woman is always threatened with danger from the reverberations of her physiological emergencies.
It is with such thoughts that the doctor lets his eyes rest upon the militant suffragist. He cannot shut them to the fact that there is
- ↑ In the interests of those who feel that female dignity is compromised by it, I have here omitted a woman's flippant overestimate of the number of women in London society who suffer from nervous disorders at the climacteric.
