Also, "beauty is the true destination of the sex; it is its natural condition, its state."--_Id._ Woman is the soul of everything; "without her, all beauty fades; nature is sad, precious stones lose their luster, all our arts, children of love, become insipid, half of our labor is without value. "If, with respect to vigor, man is to woman as 3 to 2, woman, with respect to beauty, is to man as 3 to 2. "If, from the body, we pass to the mind and conscience, woman, through her beauty, will be revealed with new advantages."--_Id._ The mind of woman is _more intuitive, more concrete, finer than that of man_; "it seems to man, and is in fact, more circumspect, more _prudent_, more reserved, _wiser_, more equable; it was _Minerva_, the protectress of Achilles and Ulysses, who appeased the fury of the one, _and shamed the other of his paradoxes and profligacies_; it is the Virgin whom the Christian litany calls _the seat of wisdom_. "The quality of the feminine mind has the effect of serving the genius of man as a radiator, by reflecting his thoughts at an angle which makes them appear more beautiful if they are correct, more absurd if they are false; consequently, of simplifying our knowledge and condensing it into simple propositions, easy to seize upon as simple facts, and the intuitive, aphoristic, imaged comprehension of which, _while giving woman a share in the philosophy and the speculations of man_, makes their memory clearer to him, their digestion more easy... _There is not a man among the most learned, the most inventive, the most profound, who does not feel a sort of refreshment from conversation with women_.... "Popularizers are generally minds of the feminine type; but man does not like to be subservient to the glory of man, and provident Nature has assigned this part to woman. "Let her speak, then, _let her write, even, I authorize and invite her to do so_; but let her do it according to the measure of her feminine intelligence, since it is on this condition that she can serve us, and _please_ us, _otherwise I withdraw the permission_. "Man has strength; but that constancy of which he boasts overmuch, he derives especially from woman.... Through her he endures, and learns true heroism. _Upon occasion, she can set him the example of it_; she will be, then, _more sublime than he_. "Woman will render the law kind, and will convert this two-edged sword into an olive branch.... There is no justice without tolerance; now, it is in the exercise of tolerance that woman excels; by the sensibility of her heart and the delicacy of her impressions, by the tenderness of her soul, by her love, in fine, she will blunt the sharp angles of justice, destroy its asperities, of a divinity of terror make a divinity of peace. Justice, the mother of Peace, would be only a cause of disunion to humanity, were it not for this tempering which she receives especially from woman."--_Id._