That the black, the yellow, the copper-colored persons belonging to races inferior to the Caucasian cannot truly associate with the latter; that they are minors.
Come, sir, study anthropology, physiology, and phrenology, and employ your serial dialectics to prove all this to us.
You are inclined to seclude woman, instead of emancipating her?
Prove to men that they have the right to do so; to women, that it is their duty to suffer themselves to be placed under lock and key. I declare, for my part, that I would not submit to it. Does Proudhon remember how he threatens the priest who shall lay his hand on his children? Well, the majority of women would not confine themselves to threats against those who might have the Mussulmanic inclination of Proudhon.
You affirm that by nature, and by destination, woman is neither associate, nor citizen, nor functionary. Tell us, in the first place, what nature it is necessary to have to be all these.
Reveal to us the nature of woman, since you claim to know it better than she does herself.
Reveal to us her destination, which apparently is not that which we see, nor which she believes to be such.
You affirm that woman, until her marriage, is nothing more than apprentice, at most, under-superintendent in the social workshop; that she is minor in the family, and does not form a part of the commonwealth.
Prove, then, that she does not execute in the social workshop and in the family works equivalent, or equal, to those of man.
Prove that she is less useful than man.