John Stuart Mill, too, was always opposed to the exclusion of married women in the demand for suffrage.
My sense of justice was severely tried by all I heard of the persecutions of Mrs.Besant and Mr.Bradlaugh for their publications on the right and duty of parents to limit population.

Who can contemplate the sad condition of multitudes of young children in the Old World whose fate is to be brought up in ignorance and vice--a swarming, seething mass which nobody owns--without seeing the need of free discussion of the philosophical principles that underlie these tangled social problems?
The trials of Foote and Ramsey, too, for blasphemy, seemed unworthy a great nation in the nineteenth century.

Think of well-educated men of good moral standing thrown into prison in solitary confinement, for speaking lightly of the Hebrew idea of Jehovah and the New Testament account of the birth of Jesus! Our Protestant clergy never hesitate to make the dogmas and superstitions of the Catholic Church seem as absurd as possible, and why should not those who imagine they have outgrown Protestant superstitions make them equally ridiculous?
Whatever is true can stand investigation and ridicule.
In the last of April, when the wildflowers were in their glory, Mrs.
Mellen and her lovely daughter, Daisy, came down to our home at Basingstoke to enjoy its beauty.

As Mrs.Mellen had known Charles Kingsley and entertained him at her residence in Colorado, she felt a desire to see his former home.

Accordingly, one bright morning, Mr.
Blatch drove us to Eversley, through Strathfieldsaye, the park of the Duke of Wellington.