It is as if one said that socialism claims 

 that a royal decree or a popular vote could 

 establish that " from henceforth all men shall 

 have a stature of five feet seven inches !" 



But really socialism is something more 

 serious and more difficult to refute. 



Socialism says : " Men are unequal, but they 

 are all men." 



And, in fact, although every individual 

 is born and develops in a manner more or 

 less different from all other individuals just 

 as there are not two leaves in a forest the 

 same, so in the whole world there are not two 

 men exactly equal yet every man from the 

 fact alone that he is a human being has a. right 

 to the existence of a man and not of a slave 

 or beast of burden. 



We also know that all men cannot accom- 

 plish the same work to-day, when social 

 inequalities are added to natural inequalities, 



from a physio-psychical point of view woman is the equal 

 of man, and he attempts unsuccessfully to refute the 

 scientific objections that have been raised to this thesis. 



After the scientific researches of MM. Lombroso and 

 Ferrero (Donna delinquente, prostituta e normals, Turin, 

 1893), the physiological and psychological inferiority of 

 woman compared with man cannot be denied. I have 

 given a Darwinian explanation of this fact (Scuola 

 positiva, 1893, nos. 7 and 8) which Lombroso has since 

 completely accepted (Uomo di genio, 6th edition, 1894) 

 in drawing attention to the fact that all the physio- 

 psychical characteristics of women are the result of her 

 great biological function maternity. 



A being that creates from herself another not in the 

 fleeting moment of a voluptuous contract, but by the 

 organic and psychical sacrifice of pregnancy, childbirth 

 and suckling cannot preserve for herself as much 

 strength as the man who has only an infinitely less 

 heavy function iff the reproduction of the species. 



