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        I have quite come to the conviction that while men alone wield political power women will never have justice. That celebrated personage, 'the judicious despot,' if only he could be really omnipotent, might do justice to every class, race, and sex; but while anything of constitutional freedom exists it is the business, duty, and tendency of each class to study its own interests, but as it has no definite duty, so neither has it knowledge or power to survey a whole empire or protect every other class; and in fact an unrepresented class is often worse off under what is called freedom than under the despotism of one man. Its rights are protected only indirectly and by accident; hence it is sure to suffer great wrongs.