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It is easy to assume that men are naturally the lawmakers and / law-enforcers, under the plain historic fact that they have been such / since the beginning of the patriarchate.
Back of law lies custom and tradition. Back of government lies the / correlative activity of any organized group. What group-insects / and group-animals evolve unconsciously and fulfill by their social / instincts, we evolve consciously and fulfill by arbitrary systems called / laws and governments. In this, as in all other fields of our action, we / must discriminate between the humanness of the function in process of / development, and the influence of the male or female upon it. Quite / apart from what they may like or dislike as sexes, from their differing / tastes and faculties, lies the much larger field of human progress, in / which they equally participate.