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A three-year course will suffice for this type of education, & guides this child of the Republic to his eighteenth year. Then if the country has enemies it must fight, he will be honored to go in its defense; for in the future the Republic wishes to entrust only its own children with the task of defending it. This act of devotion having been completed, he returns to his household, there decides on a virtuous, active, & hard-working companion, & he becomes himself the founder of a new family, with which the Republic enriches itself.  
be of short duration; & this period once passed, there are other tasks & duties that nature & society decree ought to be taken care of.
Such is the progress of a republican & truly public education; I know of no other one. This is the end that education must accomplish, & the result that must complete it.
There is a truth that must be engraved into each individual, & that is, in a republic where fortunes must be completely divided up, where everyone must have little, in order for everyone to have something; in a nation where an immense horde of priests, cloistered girls, women led astray by superstition or degraded by vice, is going to disappear once & for all, it is necessary that marriages regain their dignity, & that celibacy be eternally prohibited. Celibacy has never been anything more than a sophisticated corruption, & a way of satisfying, more freely, shameful pleasures.
For the most part, this same plan is applicable to girls. Indeed, any girl who has reached the age of fifteen, needs to have learned & know a trade suitable to her sex. In possession of this precious resource, she can confidently aspire to the role of mother, for which nature has destined her. However, if she believes it more useful to delay this to a later age, she can either continue with the carrying out of her profession, or learn from a virtuous mother, the efficient use of time by sharing with her domestic duties & tasks.
I leave these reflections to the meditation of the wise & true friends of the popular cause: they are inspired to me only by the fierce desire that I have to see men happy. These reflections are not made to be debated by philosophers. It is only up to feeling & moving sensitivity to appreciate them, & to remain convinced that only in fulfilling the measure I propose, will we accelerate the renewal of morality; the only thing capable of bringing about the prosperity & immutability of the Republic.
Let us not believe that under a republican, democratic, & popular regime, the plague of domesticity will be able to continue to afflict the social corps as much as it has up until this point. Every homemaker must learn to do without outside help, & should not abandon tasks that have been entrusted to her in the hands of those who work for money. Domesticity is not a profession; it should only be considered as a period of apprenticeship, a type of practical education, when the youth can receive useful lessons & examples. This apprenticeship should

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be of short duration; & this period once passed, there are other tasks & duties that nature & society decree ought to be taken care of. There is a truth that must be engraved into each individual, & that is, in a republic where fortunes must be completely divided up, where everyone must have little, in order for everyone to have something; in a nation where an immense horde of priests, cloistered girls, women led astray by superstition or degraded by vice, is going to disappear once & for all, it is necessary that marriages regain their dignity, & that celibacy be eternally prohibited. Celibacy has never been anything more than a sophisticated corruption, & a way of satisfying, more freely, shameful pleasures. I leave these reflections to the meditation of the wise & true friends of the popular cause: they are inspired to me only by the fierce desire that I have to see men happy. These reflections are not made to be debated by philosophers. It is only up to feeling & moving sensitivity to appreciate them, & to remain convinced that only in fulfilling the measure I propose, will we accelerate the renewal of morality; the only thing capable of bringing about the prosperity & immutability of the Republic.

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