Pierre Leroux, the gentlest, best and most simple man that I know, writes in turn in the fourth volume of his _Encyclopédie Nouvelle_, article _Egalité_, the following remarkable paragraphs: "There are not two different beings, man and woman, there is but a single human being with two phases, which correspond and are united by love. "Man and woman exist to form the couple; they are the two parts of it. _Outside of the couple, outside of love and marriage, there is no longer any sex_; there are human beings of a common origin and of like faculties. Man at every moment of his life is sensation, sentiment, knowledge; so is woman. The definition is therefore the same." After having proved, according to his idea, that the type of woman differs from that of man, he continues: "But this type does not separate them from the rest of humanity, and does not make of them a separate race which must be distinguished philosophically from man.... Love being absent, they manifest themselves to man as human beings, and are ranked, like man, under the various categories of civil society." After having observed that, however different men may be, they are therefore none the less equal, since they all are sensation, sentiment and knowledge, Pierre Leroux, applying this principle to the question of the right of woman, adds: "From whatever side we look at this question, we are led to proclaim the equality of man and woman. For, if we consider woman in the couple, woman is the equal of man, since the couple itself is founded on equality, since love is equality in itself, and since where justice, that is, equality, does not reign, there love cannot reign, but the contrary of love. "And if we consider woman outside of the couple, she is a being like unto man, endowed with the same faculties in various degrees; one of those varieties in unity which constitute the world and human society." The author says that woman should lay claim to equality only as a spouse and a human being; that to acknowledge her as free because she has sex, is to declare her at liberty not only to use but also to abuse love; and that the abuse of love must not be the appanage and sign of liberty. He says that woman has sex only for him whom she loves and by whom she is loved; that to all others she can be merely a human being. "From this point of view," continues he, "we must say to women: you have a right to equality by two distinct titles; as human beings and as wives. As wives, you are our equals, for love in itself is equality. As human beings, your cause is that of all, _it is the same as that of the people; it is allied to the great revolutionary cause_; that is, to the general progress of the human kind. _You are our equals, not because you are women but because there are no longer either slaves or serfs._