What movement! What activity! What life! Each dress will busy a hundred fingers instead of ten.

No longer will there be an idle young girl, and we need not, Sire, point out to your perspicacity the moral results of this great revolution.

Not only will there be more women employed, but each one of them will earn more, for they cannot meet the demand, and if competition still shows itself, it will no longer be among the workingwomen who make the dresses, but the beautiful ladies who wear them.
You see, Sire, that our proposition is not only conformable to the economic traditions of the government, but it is also essentially moral and democratic.
To appreciate its effect, let us suppose it realized; let us transport ourselves in thought into the future; let us imagine the system in action for twenty years.

Idleness is banished from the country; ease and concord, contentment and morality, have entered all families together with labor; there is no more misery and no more prostitution.
The left hand being very clumsy at its work, there is a superabundance of labor, and the pay is satisfactory.

Everything is based on this, and, as a consequence, the workshops are filled.