Those who claim, in accordance with the major of the preceding syllogisms, that you found right upon identity of species, an abstraction of individual qualities; that you believe right and duty correlative; that you desire equality and liberty, will be quite as nearly right as those who claim, in accordance with the conclusion of the same syllogisms, that you base right upon force, superiority of faculties; that you accept inequality and despotism, deny individual liberty and social equality, and do not believe in the correlation of right and duty. If it is painful to you to have fallen into contradictions so monstrous, believe that it is not less painful to me to be forced, in the interest of my cause, to point them out to the world. Having taken in hand the cause of my sex, I was under obligations to parry your attacks by turning against yourself your allegations against us. It was necessary to do this, not by denials and declamations which prove nothing, or by affirmations without proofs, according to your method of proceeding; but by opposing to you science and facts; by making use only of the rational method which you extol without employing it, by charging you often with contradicting yourself when proofs _de facto_ would have demanded too much detail and time. You accuse women of _taking chimeras for realities_. I have proved to you that you deserve this reproach, since your theory is in contradiction to science and facts. You accuse women of _erecting unreal analogies into principles_.... I have proved that you have done so as well, in deducing from the _pretended_ absence of physical germs in woman, the absence of intellectual and moral germs. You accuse woman of _reasoning wrongly_.... I have brought you face to face with your own principles, that you might draw from them contradictory conclusions. You accuse woman of creating nothing but _medleys, monsters_.... The anatomy of your theory proves that you know how to do so quite as well. You accuse woman of lacking intellect, of want of justice, virtue, chastity.... I appeal from you to yourself, and you say positively the contrary. Where you are fantastic, contradictory, I, _a woman_, appeal to logic. Where you are wanting in method, I, _a woman_, employ scientific and rational method. Where you contradict your own principles, I appeal to these same principles to judge and condemn you. Which of us two is the more reasonable and more rational? My modesty suffers, I acknowledge, at the thought that I have played the part of _Minerva shaming Ulysses_ _of his paradoxes and his profligacies_. At last, this tiresome part is ended!