As you will find, equality before the law gives absolute effect to the real inequality, and chiefly through its coarsest element, superior physical force.

The liberty that is a necessary logical consequence of equality takes from the woman her one natural safeguard--the man's need of her goodwill, if not of her affection." "In our world," I replied, "I always held that even slaves, so they be household slaves, are secure against gross cruelty.

The owner cannot make life a burden to them without imperilling his own.

To reduce the question to its lowest terms--malice will always be a match for muscle, and poison an efficient antidote to the _ferula_." "So," rejoined Esmo, "our men have perceived, and consequently they have excepted attempts to murder, as the women have excepted serious bodily injury, from the general rule prohibiting appeals to a court of law." "And," said I, "are there many such appeals ?" "Not one in two years," he replied; "and for a simple reason.

Our law, as matter of course and of common sense, puts murder, attempted or accomplished, on the same footing, and visits both with its supreme penalty.