You see what woman is: "_unproductive by nature, inert, without industry or understanding, without justice, and without modesty_, she needs that a father, a brother, a lover, a husband, a master, a man, in fine, should give her that magnetic influence, if I may thus term it, which will render her capable of manly virtues, of social and intellectual faculties."--_Id._ And as "all her philosophy, her religion, her politics, her economy, her industry are resolved in one word: Love; "Now shall we make of this being belonging wholly to love, an overseer, an engineer, a captain, a merchant, a financier, an economist, an administrator, a scholar, an artist, a professor, a philosopher, a legislator, a judge, an orator, the general of an army, the head of a State? "The question carries its answer within itself."--_Id._ I have laid down and proved my thesis, I am about to draw my conclusions. "Since in economical, political and social action, the strength of the body and that of the mind concur and are multiplied, the one by the other, the physical and intellectual value of the man will be to the physical and intellectual value of woman as 3 × 3 is to 2 × 2, or as 9 to 4. "In the moral, as in the physical and intellectual point of view, her value (that of woman,) is also as 2 to 3. "Their share of influence, compared together, will be as 3 × 3 × 3 is to 2 × 2 × 2 or as 27 to 8. "According to these conditions, woman cannot pretend to counterbalance the virile power; her subordination is inevitable. Both by nature, and before justice, she does not weigh the third of man."--_Id._ Do you understand clearly? AUTHOR. Very clearly. Your theory, if theory there be, is only a tissue of paradoxes; your pretended principles _are contradicted by facts_, your conclusions _are equally contradicted by facts_; you _affirm_ like a revelator, but you _never prove_, as a philosopher should do. There is so much ignorance and senseless metaphysics in all that you say, that I should rather give you credit for bad faith than be compelled to despise you. I have listened to you patiently while you have said to me, in saying it of all women: You are inert, passive, you possess the germ of nothing; You are a mean term between man and beast, you have no right to exist; You are immoral, immodest, imbecile, aristocratic, the enemy of liberty, equality and justice. In your turn, endeavor to listen to me calmly, while I refute your allegations by facts, by science and by reason. III. There is, by your own confession, but one good method of demonstration; that of basing every affirmation _upon well established facts, not contradicted by others, legitimately deduced_. Let us see how you have followed this method.