Yes, we will redress it; doubtless we ought to. These women wehave just so cruelly enslaved—there is no denying we mustrecompense them, and I come now to the second question I proposedto answer. If we admit, as we have just done, that all women oughtto be subjugated to our desires, we may certainly allow then amplesatisfaction of theirs.
Our laws must be favorable to their fiery temperament. It isabsurd to locate both their honor and their virtue in theantinatural strength they employ to resist the penchants with whichthey have been far more profusely endowed than we; this injusticeof manners is rendered more flagrant still since we contrive atonce to weaken them by seduction, and then to punish them foryielding to all the efforts we have made to provoke their fall. Allthe absurdity of ou
