Reading an argument for women's equality framed around the time of the French Revolution
Her argument is that rational beings, when disenfranchised, have no civil, orderly, or legal recourse; they will nonetheless seek recourse. If their tactics are "lowly" - when they undermine the state with tricks, subterfuge, rebellion - this is the mode they've been assigned by tyrants.
A civil, orderly, moral society requires passionate, liberally-applied enfranchisement to grow
