And how absurd it is to give property—rights to women! “All women are, with rare exceptions, inclined to extravagance,” because they live only in the present, and their chief out—door sport is shopping. “Women think that it is men’s business to earn money, and theirs to spend it”;151 this is their conception of the division of labor. “I am therefore of opinion that women should never be allowed altogether to manage their own concerns, but should always stand under actual male supervision, be it of father, of husband, of son, or of the state—as is the case in Hindostan; and that consequently
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