robbed of a portion of their lawful individual weight in their
own society; and the society as a whole may lose by having a smaller
number to select its chosen labourers from; yet, undoubtedly, on the
mass of social, political, and international questions, the conclusions
arrived at by one sex would be exactly those arrived at by the other.

Were a body of humans elected to adjudicate upon Greek accents, or to
pass a decision on the relative fineness of woollens and linens, the
form of sex of the persons composing it would probably have no bearing
on the result; there is no rational ground for supposing that, on a
question of Greek accents or the thickness of cloths, equally instructed
males and females would differ. Here sex plays no part. The experience
and instructedness of the individuals would tell: their sexual
attributes would be indifferent.

But there are points, comparatively small, even very small, in number,
yet of vital importance to human life, in which sex does play a part.

It is not a matter of indifference whether the body called to adjudicate
upon the questions, whether the temporary sale of the female body for
sexual purposes shall or shall not be a form of traffic encouraged
and recognised by the state; or whether one law shall exist for the
licentious human female and another for the licentious human male;
whether the claim of the female to the offspring she bears shall or
shall not equal that of the male who begets it; whether an act of
infidelity on the part of the male shall or shall not terminate the
contract which binds his female companion to him, as completely as an
act of infidelity on her part would terminate her claim on him; it is
not a matter of indifference whether a body elected to adjudicate on
such points as these consists of males solely, or females solely, or of
both combined. As it consists of one, or the other, or of both, so not
only will the answers vary, but, in some cases, will they be completely
diverse. Here we come into that very narrow, but important, region,
where sex as sex manifestly plays its part; where the male as male
and the female as female have each their body of perceptions and
experiences, which they do not hold in common; here one sex cannot
adequately represent the other. It is here that each sexual part has
something radically distinct to contribute to the wisdom of the race.

We, today, take all labour for our province! We seek to enter the
non-sexual