Women and Politics

by Charles Kingsley

Transcribed from the 1869 London National Society edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

WOMEN AND POLITICS.

by the
REV. CANON KINGSLEY.

REPRINTED FROM ‘MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE.’

Published by the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage.

LONDON:
printed by
SPOTTISWOODE & CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE, FARRINGDON STREET
and 80 parliament street, westminster
1869.

WOMEN AND POLITICS. [3]

Somewhat more than 300 years ago, John Knox, who did more than any man to mould the thoughts of his nation—and indeed of our English Puritans likewise—was writing a little book on the ‘Regiment of Women,’ in which he proved woman, on account of her natural inferiority to man, unfit to rule.

And but the other day, Mr. John Stuart Mill, who has done more than any man to mould the thought of the rising generation of Englishmen, has written a little book, in the exactly opposite sense, on the ‘Subjection of Women,’ in which he proves woman, on account of her natural equality with man, to be fit to rule.