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| | The Ladies' Petition, Helen Taylor, 1867 |
 | | It is at the same time, a sign of that "disposition which various causes (partly political and partly philosophical) have tended to foster of late years, to seek the reform of existing evils rather in the development than in the overthrow of the present order of things. |
 | | If therefore the lady petitioners had chosen to urge their claims simply as women, and not as English women, they would, on the theory of class representation, have been able to take up very strong ground. |
 | | It is hard to see how, if the law of England endows a woman with property, it can, consistently with this legal dictum, deprive her of the "essential privilege" (which, as we understand Lord Somers, must be her "birthright" if she is born in England) whereby her property is to be preserved. |
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