violent love that had the greatest effect on the life of the great man of letters.

So I thought I would transcribe some passages of this article, for the crushing answers it contains to the claims of those who see in woman's participation in public questions an occasion for the loss of her femininity and the keenness of her feeling.

The writer says: "Émilie du Châtelet — the learned researcher, the thinker tireless in probing the products of the mind — was no less sensible of love, no less wholly athrob with it, than those women lovers famed in history for the violence of their passion. Nor were Maria Agnesi the Italian mathematician, Sophie Kovalevsky the Russian scholar, and Clémence Royer the French philosopher any less swept along by their feeling than other loving women.

And we know from Voltaire's let-ters what happiness he felt in the nearness of this woman when she withdrew with him to the château of Cirey, where she had invited him to stay, at the hour when the authorities sought his arrest following the appearance of the English Letters, which the French authorities regarded as an implicit criticism of the French regime.

For he felt a sweet, serene, deep happiness in the nearness of this lady in his seclusion; and often in this seclusion the Marquise du Châtelet would likewise devote herself to writing on subjects that appear dry, far removed from what alone was supposed apt to take possession of the attention of a lady like the Marquise du Châtelet. So she composed lessons in the method of physical researches, and memoirs on nature and on the propagation of flame. She would devote herself to such intellectual matters, excelling when she wrote and choosing well when she read, exercising her mind and cultivating her intellect;

she threw herself into the study of physics and mathematics, and devoted herself to translating Newton's Principles of Natural Philosophy — all this in the remote château of Cirey, in her seclusion at Voltaire's side.

Yet she possessed such tender-ness, sweetness, and overflowing love that her mere presence shed over this scientific and intellectual atmosphere the fragrance of feminine charm in its gentlest and most delicate forms. For the Marquise Émilie du Châtelet was graceful without affectation, frank, free in temper, merry in disposition, pulsing with life and vitality.

If her penetrating mind and her intellectual production earned her the respect and esteem of the men of thought and science, her fragrant charm, which had lost nothing of its richness, made her the lodestar of hearts and the resting place of desires."

And at the end of his tour through the history of this woman's love, the writer of the article draws a simple, clear truth: that woman's concern with public affairs makes her lose nothing of her sweetness and tenderness; on the contrary, it gains her a richness — if the expression may be allowed — which we do not find in the woman whose life's horizons are confined to trivial things.

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