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Rather I foresee you hostile that I wait for you benevolent, reader, whom therefore I do not dare to call a friend. I present you this little book, and if you intend to read it, you must thank me for being so brief, because the matter is long, and I assure you that I have had trouble not saying more about it. I have tried to group the arguments and concentrate the reasons so that they will have more strength, because it is already clear to me that the resistance they need to overcome will not be small. Those who address you usually have the idea of attracting you to their belief, to their opinion; my pretensions are more modest: I am not trying to persuade or convince you; all my ambition is limited to the fact that at the end of these pages, you may doubt and say, first for you and then for the others: "Is this woman right in any of the things she says?