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This argument may best be put in its full strength if it be placed , as it often is , in the form of a question : Was it reasonable that Florence Nightingale should not have possessed the right to vote for a member of Parliament when even in her day her footman or her coachman , if he had happened to be a ten-pound householder , or a forty-shilling freeholder , might have exercised a right denied to a lady who , as appears from her biography , possessed many statesmanlike qualities , who did in fact in some lines of action exert more political power than most M.P.s , and who always exercised power disinterestedly , and generally exercised it with admitted benefit to the country ? At the same time it is clear that a way is no more capable of possession because somebody else has a right to it , than if no one had . The language of the law of easements was built up out of similes drawn from persons at a time when the noxoe deditio was still familiar ; and then , as often happens , language reacted upon thought , so that conclusions were drawn as to the rights themselves from the terms in which they happened to be expressed . But then each one of the Dominions desires rather the increase than the lessening of its own independence . Thus a British subject , whatever be the place of his birth , or the race to which he belongs , or I may now add the religion which he professes , has , with the rarest possible exceptions , the same right to settle or to trade in England which is possessed by a natural-born Englishman .