Voices are not wanting to insist that only through a return to this old domestic order of kingship of the man can the family be preserved.
A recent book claiming intellectual authority and endorsed by many men in high positions states this opinion clearly, and seeks to strengthen it by the use of scientific half-truths used not scientifically but as a support for a metaphysical theory of masculine and feminine quality.
Every step that has been taken from the male despotism within marriage and parenthood has met such appeals to stay the progress of democracy toward the hearth-stone lest the family order be wholly destroyed.
Most people, however, believe that the steps which have been taken away from that family despotism are too many to be retraced.

Women will not be put back into perpetual legal minority when once they have become adults under the law.

They will not consent to lose property rights and the power of guardianship over their own children.

They will not consent to their own disfranchisement or to the loss of opportunities of education and of economic independence.

It is as futile as it is stupid to expect that in this matter history will go backward.