 Condorcet rejects the claim that “women have never based their conduct on what is called reason,” insisting that “they may never have behaved according to the reason of men; but they do behave according to their own reason” (McLean and Hewitt 1994, 336). While allowing for the possibility that women may have their own reason, a different reason from that of men, still Condorcet meets his compatriot’s strong objections that women reason differently or perhaps do not reason at all by advocating raised educational standards, improved laws, and the equalization of the social circumstances endured by the sexes. Only with these reforms, he insists, will women come to escape the pull of vanity and self-interest, to which they are doomed in the present, and come to respond to the demands of justice and positive law. As for whatever residual differences between the sexes might still remain, Condorcet finds in them a comprehensible logic: