Under the heading of "Militant Hysteria," Sir Almroth Wright, the
great physiologist, writes a very striking letter to Thursday's Times. "No doctor," he declares, "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," he goes on, "that the doctor lets his eyes rest upon the militant suffragist. He cannot shut them to the fact that there is mixed up with the woman's movement much mental disorder ; and he cannot conceal from himself the physiological emer- gencies which lie behind. The recruiting field for the militant suffragists is the half-million of our excess female population—that half-million which bad better long ago have gone out to mate with its complement of men. beyond the sea." We cannot unfortunately analyse Sir Almroth Wright's remarkable letter at length. All we can do is to put up a sign-post to it and advise our readers to study it carefully, for it contains much that is of essential importance in the discussion of the suffrage question. Sir Almroth Wright ends his letter with the declaration that peace will come again. "It will come when woman ceases to believe and to teach all manner of evil of man despitefully. It will come when she ceases to impute to him as a crime her own natural disabilities, when she ceases to resent the fact that matt cannot and does not wish to work side by side with her."
Previous page
