"Thus in the future she will be the image of Divine Wisdom on earth, as man will represent Divine Power.
"To man more especially will belong action; to woman, counsel.
"Man will take the initiative in difficult enterprises; woman will moderate or excite ardor therein.
"Man will rule the planet; woman will embellish it.
"Man will symbolize science and manufactures; woman will symbolize poetry and art.
"The one will always have need of the other; they will walk together side by side, and will find completeness reciprocally in each other.
"Such, my dear friend, after a brief fashion, is the idea which should be formed of woman. Man and woman are not two beings radically separated; both together make but a single being. To subordinate woman to man or man to woman is therefore to mutilate the human being, or to fail to comprehend its interests. That humanity may be happy, neither of its halves must suffer. And how can it help suffering if it is reduced to servitude and oppressed by the other?
"Our destiny on earth is to constitute the collective being in his own consciousness. For this, it is necessary to realize the humanitary androgynus. Now the humanitary androgynus necessitates first the individual androgynus which can only be constituted by harmonious marriage.
"Marriage is therefore the great formative or deformative law of the collective being, according as it is expressed by the legislator in a manner conformably or contrary to human destiny.
"It is in marriage that the sources of good and evil are found; would you know why?