That "every holder of a general insurance has a right to be a party to it."
It is evident that we may deduce, without any great stretch of logic, that, woman being free and equal to man,
Woman being comprised in universality,
Woman holding, like man, her policy of insurance, has a right, like man, to be elector, to be eligible to office, and to vote individually and directly.
Now, as M. de Girardin is not one of those who recoil from the consequences of their principles, we are led to believe that he admits to woman the exercise of political right for woman.
I have been told that, in 1848, one of those pitiable individuals who have neither intellect enough to be logical, nor justice enough to comprehend the oppressed, was haranguing before M. de Girardin against the claims of certain women to enter political life. "Why not?" asked M. de Girardin. "Do you believe that Madame de Girardin would deposit a less intelligent vote in the electoral urn than that of her footman?"
If this anecdote be true, the opinion of the publicist concerning the political right of woman is not doubtful.
La liberté dans le mariage has raised a tempest of indignation, to a greater or less degree feigned, among the prudes; and for some time it required courage openly to proclaim one's self the (feminine) champion of the author.
Abolish marriage! cry some, veiling their faces with an air of offended modesty.
Make a speculation of love! exclaim others who, apparently, have preserved their holy innocence and baptismal ignorance.