Now, follow my reasoning closely: It being admitted that _strength has some weight in the establishment of right_; it being admitted, on the other hand, that woman is one third weaker than man, she will then be to man, in physical respects, as two is to three. Consequently, in the social workshop, the value of the products of woman will be one third less than that of the products of man; therefore, in the division of social advantages, the proportion will be the same: _thus says justice_. "Man will always be stronger and will always produce more," _which signifies that man will be the master, and that woman will obey, dura lex, sed lex_."--_Id._ Besides, reflect that woman falls to the charge of man during gestation; her physical weakness, her infirmities, her maternity, exclude her _inevitably_ and _judicially_ from all political, doctrinal and industrial direction.--_Id._ We will now proceed to the second point. But first, mark well that woman, like all else, is autonomic; woman, considered apart from the influence of man, is the thesis; woman, considered under the influence of man, is the antithesis; it is the thesis that we are now examining. Let us therefore approach the _thetic_ woman in the intellectual relation. We will first admit the principle that _thought is proportional to force_; whence we have a right to conclude that man possesses a stronger intellect than woman. Thus we see man alone possessing genius. As to woman, she is nothing in science; we owe to her no invention, _not even her distaff and spindle_. She never _generalizes_, never _synthetizes_; her mind is anti-metaphysical; _she cannot produce any regular work, not even a romance_; _she composes nothing but medleys, monsters_; "she makes epigrams, satire; does not know how to express a judgment in set terms, nor assign its causes; it was not she who created abstract words, such as cause, time, space, quantity, relation. _Woman is a true table rapping medium._"--_Id._ I have already told you that woman does not produce intellectual germs any more than physical germs; her intellectual inferiority tells upon the quality of the product as much as upon the intensity and duration of the action and, as in this feeble nature, the defect of the idea results from the lack of energy of the thought, it may be truly said that woman possesses a mind _essentially_ false, of irremediable _falsity_. "Disconnected ideas, contradictory reasonings, chimeras taken for realities, unreal analogies erected into principles, a tendency of mind inclining inevitably towards annihilation: such is the intellect of woman." Yes, woman "_is a passive, enervating being, whose conversation exhausts like her embraces. He who wishes to preserve entire the strength of his mind and body will flee her._"--_Id._ "_Without man, who is to her prophet and word, she would not emerge from the bestial condition._"