is positive
But the female sentiment against the franchise, whatever its size,
is positive. It is not negative; it is by no means indifferent.
Such women as are opposed to the change regard it (rightly or wrongly)
as unfeminine. That is, as insulting certain affirmative traditions
to which they are attached. You may think such a view prejudiced;
but I violently deny that any democrat has a right to override
such prejudices, if they are popular and positive. Thus he would
not have a right to make millions of Moslems vote with a cross
if they had a prejudice in favor of voting with a crescent.
Unless this is admitted, democracy is a farce we need scarcely keep up.
If it is admitted, the Suffragists have not merely to awaken
an indifferent, but to convert a hostile majority.
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