"Their share of influence, compared together, will be as 3 ☓ 3 ☓ 3 is to 2 ☓ 2 ☓ 2 or as 27 to 8.
"According to these conditions, woman cannot pretend to counterbalance the virile power; her subordination is inevitable. Both by nature, and before justice, she does not weigh the third of man."—Id.
Do you understand clearly?
AUTHOR. Very clearly. Your theory, if theory there be, is only a tissue of paradoxes; your pretended principles are contradicted by facts, your conclusions are equally contradicted by facts; you affirm like a revelator, but you never prove, as a philosopher should do. There is so much ignorance and senseless metaphysics in all that you say, that I should rather give you credit for bad faith than be compelled to despise you.
I have listened to you patiently while you have said to me, in saying it of all women:
You are inert, passive, you possess the germ of nothing;
You are a mean term between man and beast, you have no right to exist;
You are immoral, immodest, imbecile, aristocratic, the enemy of liberty, equality and justice.
In your turn, endeavor to listen to me calmly, while I refute your allegations by facts, by science and by reason.
III.