Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Descent, Politics, Domestic Economy, Gender, Human Species

    Strongly objects to a lecture given by an American woman on 'Whether man, being the inferior animal, had a right to the suffrage'. Thinks women may consider men so inferior that they should change places with women, with men fulfilling domestic roles and women having sole authority over national affairs. Doubts whether Charles R Darwin 'ever dreamed of [man] descending to a level such as this'.