Note 17 — Chapter I
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Sir Charles Trevelyan, in Good Words of January 1, 1871, says—“It is well that the ladies of England have protested against their sex being recognised by Parliament as a corpus vile for the indulgence of irregular lust. If it were possible for them to explain the real extent of the outrage upon womanhood, there would be one universal cry for repeal throughout the land.”