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be abolished without a double emancipation, and 

 the master will benefit by freedom more than the 

 freed-man. 



The like considerations apply to all the other 

 questions of emancipation which are at present 

 stirring the world the multifarious demands that 

 classes of mankind shall be relieved from restric- 

 tions imposed by the artifice of man, and not by 

 the necessities of Nature. One of the most 

 important, if not the most important, of all these, 

 is that which daily threatens to become the 

 " irrepressible " woman question. What social 

 and political rights have women ? What ought 

 they to be allowed, or not allowed, to do, be, and 

 suffer ? And, as involved in, and underlying all 

 these questions, how ought they to be educated ? 



There are philogynists as fanatical as any 

 " misogynists " who, reversing our antiquated 

 notions, bid the man look upon the woman as 

 the higher type of humanity ; who ask us to 

 regard the female intellect as the clearer and the 

 quicker, if not the stronger ; who desire us to 

 look up to the feminine moral sense as the purer 

 and the nobler ; and bid man abdicate his usurped 

 sovereignty over Nature in favour of the female 

 line. On the other hand, there are persons not 

 to be outdone in all loyalty and just respect for 

 womankind, but by nature hard of head and 

 haters of delusion, however charming, who 

 not only repudiate the new woman-worship 



