The atmosphere, physical as well as moral, in which they live, stimulates their animal appetites; the influence of bad example becomes contagious among them and mischief is propagated far and wide."-- THE UNION, January, 1843.] [Footnote 1122: A French satirist, pointing to the repeated PLEBISCITES and perpetual voting of late years, and to the growing want of faith in anything but votes, said, in 1870, that we seemed to be rapidly approaching the period when the only prayer of man and woman would be, "Give us this day our daily vote!"] [Footnote 1123: "Of primeval and necessary and absolute superiority, the relation of the mother to the child is far more complete, though less seldom quoted as an example, than that of father and son....

By Sir Robert Filmer, the supposed necessary as well as absolute power of the father over his children, was taken as the foundation and origin, and thence justifying cause, of the power of the monarch in every political state.
With more propriety he might have stated the absolute dominion of a woman as the only legitimate form of government."-- DEONTOLOGY, ii.

181.] [Footnote 121: 'Letters of Sir Charles Bell,' p.10.

[122: 'Autobiography of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck,' p.

179.] [Footnote 123: Dean Stanley's 'Life of Dr.Arnold,' i.