If, as opponents of female emancipation argue, women are not naturally inclined to be political animals, they have nothing to lose by freeing them from legal shackles because nature will dictate what they are capable of becoming. Mill argues that more people existing alongside one another on an equal footing means increased competition, with an advantageous effect on human moral and intellectual development, both individual and social. He goes on to explain the benefits of female emancipation from the utilitarian standpoint. He states that the opposition to female emancipation is thus driven by prejudice rather than rationality. Mill's contention is that we cannot know that something will not work unless we try it.
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