 [A]n equal right to be heard—to have a share in influencing the affairs of the country—to be consulted, to be spoken to, and to have agreements and considerations turning upon politics addressed to one—tended to elevate and educate the self-respect of the man […] To give people an interest in politics and in the management of their own affairs was the grand cultivator of mankind […] That was one of the reasons why he wanted women to have votes; they needed cultivation as well as men. (Westminster Election 1865 [4], XXVIII: 39; see also Considerations, XIX: 469)