A half dozen viragoes could not have done better--that is, worse.
Honors paid to such viragoes are honors to masculinity, not to femininity.
Though there were a number of learned viragoes, there is "absolutely no evidence" that women in general received the compliment and benefit of an education.
There would then be no coquettes, no immodest women, no enlightened viragoes.
If the viragoes had their way, men and women would in course of time revert to the condition of the lowest savages, differing only in their organs of generation.
