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Suivez bien mon raisonnement, Eudoxie..., 1844. 'Suivez bien mon raisonnement, Eudoxie...tout doit tendre à un but humanitaire, en consequence chaque ligne que nous écrivons doit procéder de l'analyse pour arriver à la synthèse...sans quoi le socialisme n'est plus que de l'égoisme...engendrant le matérialisme et...vous offrirai-je encore une tasse de thé?...'. Women discussing socialism: 'Follow my reasoning carefully, Eudoxie...everything must tend towards a humanitarian goal, consequently each line that we write must proceed from analysis to arrive at synthesis...without which socialism is nothing more than selfishness...begetting materialism and...might I offer you another cup of tea?...'. Satirical criticism of 'bluestockings': women with interests beyond housework and childcare. Female authors were often depicted as mannish and ugly - the implication being that their intellectual output was just as objectionable as their looks. From Les Bas-bleus, no. 31.