uties will be
estimated at their just value, and will have the right to
compensation, equivalent to the husband's work in his business.

4. As long as conjugal union exists, the husband has the right to live
in his wife's house, for the protection he gives to the family, for
the work he gives toward the house and the education of the children,
as well as for his pecuniary contributions toward the expenses of
both.

5. With the exception of contributions to the house and education, and
to the feeding and clothing of the children, the product of the
husband's work and private fortune belong to him, just as the product
and fortune of his wife are her own property. In the case of divorce
there will then be no difficulty in separating the two properties.
Excepting in cases mentioned in the second proposition, which will be
decided by law, the children will belong to the mother only. But as
long as he lives and is able to work, the divorced father must
continue to contribute to the maintenance and education of the
children he has procreated, till they come of age.

These propositions have only a legal value, and will only be required
when the conjoints cannot come to a mutual understanding. They in no
way concern those who are able to live together in mutual concord. A
weak and passive woman will continue as before to subordinate herself
to the advice and opinions of a husband stronger and wiser than
herself.

It is needless to say that, after divorce or separation, things will
not always go smoothly, although more so than at present. The husband
will always have the right to have certain claims decided by law. When
the law is not exclusively in the hands of men, it will be more
capable of protecting the rights of women. Cases in which a mother is
incapable of bringing up her own children, or where the father is
capable of great devotion and sacrifice are not now so rare, but they
are nevertheless exceptional.

=The Present Day.=--It is not to be expected that the above
propositions will find much support at the present day among the
majority of people, still less that they will soon be realized by the
governing bodies, considering their conservative and idle tendencies
and their inertia. It may be asked, on the other hand, whether the
present laws do not already provide us with the ways and means of
attaining the ideal that we propose. I already see two:

First of all, as pointed out in Chapter XIII, we may enter int