Note 823 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (continued 2)

Mrs. Mill, "Enfranchisement of Women," Westminster Review, July 1851; or Dissertations and Discussions, III, 117, 118. "While far from being expedient, we are firmly convinced, that the division of mankind into castes, one born to rule over the other, is in this case, as in all cases, an unqualified mischief; a source of perversion and demoralization, both to the favored class and to those at whose expense they are favored; producing none of the good which it is the custom to ascribe to it, and forming a bar, almost insuperable while it lasts, to any really vital improvement, either in the character or in the social condition of the human race."—Ibid., 101. Cf. Mr. Mill's masterly discussion of the relative effects of equality and inequality in marriage, in Subjection of Women, 53-90, 146 ff.