READER. Alas! it is but too true.
AUTHOR. Let us demand then, not only a rational reform of the national education, but also that the number of lyceums shall be doubled for girls.
That all the institutions of higher instruction dependent on the state shall be open to them as to boys.
That they shall be admitted to receive the same university degrees, and the same diplomas of capacity as men.
That every field of occupation shall be opened to them as to men;
So that, elevated in public opinion by equality, their activity shall no longer be nominally compensated; that they may live by their labor, and that want, discouragement and suicide may no longer terminate their life when they do not make choice of the sad part of elements of demoralization.
I.
APPEAL TO WOMEN.
Progressive women, to you, I address my last words, Listen in the name of the general good, in the name of your sons and your daughters.
You say: the manners of our time are corrupt; the laws concerning our sex need reform.