PROUDHON. Willingly ... since I cannot do otherwise.
AUTHOR. Do you admit that woman is identical in species with man?
PROUDHON. Yes, only her faculties are less energetic.
AUTHOR. I grant you this for the sake of discussion. Expound your general theory concerning right, I will apply it to woman, and you shall draw the conclusion.
VII.
PROUDHON. "The law regulating only human relations, it is the same for all; so that, to establish exceptions, it will be necessary to prove that the individuals excepted are of superior order, or inferior to the human species."—Creation of Order in Humanity.
AUTHOR. Now you admit that woman is neither superior nor inferior to the human species, but is identical in species with man; the law is therefore the same for her as for man.
PROUDHON. I draw the contrary conclusion, because man is the stronger.
AUTHOR. A contradiction, Master.
PROUDHON. "Neither figure, nor birth, nor the faculties, nor fortune, nor rank, nor profession, nor talent, nor anything which distinguishes individuals apart, establishes between them a difference of species: all being men, and the law only regulating human relations, it is the same for all."—Id.