The political struggles of general concern during the following period (such as the antislavery movement and the anticorn-law movement) furnished these women an opportunity to educate themselves in political affairs, and, like the American women of that time, they in many cases learned their political ABC by means of the same questions. Such men as Cobden, Pease, Biggs, Knight, and others were the advance guard of the political women in England. The earliest pamphlet on women's suffrage preserved to us appeared in 1847. It is a small leaflet and says among other things, "As long as both sexes and all parties are not given a just representation, good government is impossible" (which is a paraphrase of the American principle--every just government derives its powers from the consent of the governed). The contrary view had been stated in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ as early as 1842 by the father of John Stuart Mill: "It is self-evident that all persons whose interests are identical with those of a different class are excluded from political representation without injury." Certainly from such an arrangement the "representatives" will suffer no injury. That select group of intellectual women who trained themselves politically during the antislavery movement and the struggle for free trade consisted of the mothers, the sisters, and daughters of liberal politicians and academically trained men. Many of these women were themselves students and teachers. No antagonism ever existed in England between the woman's suffrage movement and the movement favoring the education of woman.