If the Societary School has not reached perfect truth, it must be at least acknowledged that it has taken the right way to attain it. Whether its theory of the classification and the predominance of faculties in conformity with the sexes be exact or not, the error will not be productive of mischievous results in practice. Woman being free to follow her aptitudes, being half in rights and functions, could always place herself in the exceptional eighth, without fear of encountering jealous individuals, better fitted than herself to warble in the minor key, who would send her back to the duties of the household. I remember, in this connection, a certain advocate, by no means _feminine_, professing a superb disdain of the sex to which his mother belonged, worthy in a word, to be the disciple of P. J. Proudhon; would you know what this man had retained of all his lessons in law? The art of sweeping a room properly, of polishing furniture, of hemming napkins and pocket handkerchiefs neatly, and of compounding sauces. Do you not think, illustrious Proudhon, that he might have been advised with more justice to _go and iron his collars_, than certain women who write good articles on Philosophy. But let us return to Fourier. Among the Socialist Schools, that of Fourier occupies a distinguished place; it is the one most deserving of the gratitude of women through the principles that it has laid down. Be it understood, we separate in this connection the principles of Liberty and Equality from all that relates to the question of ethics, which we cannot resolve in the same manner as Fourier, _any more for woman than man_. CHAPTER VII. SUMMARY. Appear, all ye modern innovators, before your judge, the public. Sum up your opinions. COMMUNIST. The two sexes differ, do not perform the same functions, but _they are equal before the law_. For woman to be really emancipated, society must be remoulded economically, and marriage suppressed. PHILADELPHIAN AND ICARIAN. We are of your opinion, brother, except in what concerns marriage. ORTHODOX ST. SIMONIAN. If Christianity has despised and oppressed woman, it has been because, in its sight, she represented matter, the world, evil. We, who are come to give the true meaning of the Trinity, rehabilitate or explain what our predecessors have condemned. Woman is the equal of man, because in God, who comprises everything, matter is equal to spirit. With man, woman forms the couple which is the social individual, the functionary. As woman is very different from man, we do not take the liberty of judging her; we content ourselves with _summoning_ her that she may reveal herself. Notwithstanding we think that she can only be affranchised by being emancipated in love.