Topsy-Turvy

JULES VERNE
Author of Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Etc., Etc.
Copyright, 1890 by J.G.Ogilvie
NEW YORK SEASIDE PUBLISHING COMPANY 142-144 Worth Street

Then Mr Maston, you pretend that a woman has never been able to make mathematical or experimental-science progress?
To my extreme regret, I am obliged to, Mrs. Scorbitt, answered J.T. Maston.
That there have been some very remarkable women in mathematics, especially in Russia, I fully and willingly agree with you. But, with her cerebral conformation, she cannot become an Archimedes, much less a Newton.
Oh, Mr. Maston, allow me to protest in the name of my sex.
A sex, Mrs. Scorbitt, much too charming to give itself up to the higher studies.
Well then, according to your opinion, no woman seeing an apple fall could have discovered the law of universal gravitation, so that it would have made her the most illustrious scientific person of the seventeenth century?
In seeing an apple fall, Mrs. Scorbitt, a woman would have but the single idea-to eat it-for example, our mother Eve.