You reproach me with having made forty paralogisms; it was your duty at least to have cited one of these. However, let us see.
You say: between man and woman there is a separation of the same nature as that which the difference of race establishes between animals.
Woman, by nature and destination, is neither associate, nor citizen, nor functionary.
She is, until marriage, only apprentice, at most, under-superintendent in the social workshop; she is a minor in the family, and does not form a part of the commonwealth.
You conceive of no destiny for her outside of the household: she can be only housewife or courtesan.
She is incapable of understanding and of governing herself.
To make a paralogism is to draw a conclusion from false premises; now did I conclude from such in saying:
In order that all these paradoxes may become truths, you have to prove:
That man and woman are not of the same race;
That they can be reproduced separately;