We have discovered nothing, because we have given it no thought.

We feel that there is something bad in the two first means; but we wish to preserve the family, and our view of woman is still worse.
"With us woman must be at the same time mistress and nurse, and her strength is not sufficient.

That is why we have hysteria, nervous attacks, and, among the peasants, witchcraft.

Note that among the young girls of the peasantry this state of things does not exist, but only among the wives, and the wives who live with their husbands.

The reason is clear, and this is the cause of the intellectual and moral decline of woman, and of her abasement.
"If they would only reflect what a grand work for the wife is the period of gestation! In her is forming the being who continues us, and this holy work is thwarted and rendered painful.