The two are often confused in measuring the status of women of different countries. We can no more assimilate the movement for the enfranchisement of women in England to the movement for the enfranchisement of women in the western section of the United States than we can liken the economic and social status of the negro of the South before the Civil War with that of the negro of the North. The one was a slave to an economic regime and essential to its welfare; the other was a human being with little economic or social significance.
Thus we see in some places the political rights of women asked for on industrial grounds, and fought for as an industrial expedient. Elsewhere the political rights of women are sought on a social basis alone.
FOOTNOTES:
[99] Morgan, Ancient Societies, p. 62.
[100] Morgan, Ancient Societies, p. 470.
[101] Vinegradoff, The Growth of the Manor, p. 249.
[102] Ross, The Early History of Land-Holding Among the Germans, p. 67.
[103] Vinegradoff, The Growth of the Manor, p. 249.
[104] Maine, Early History of Institutions, p. 327.
[105] Bagehot, Physics and Politics, p. 24.