use of her right. For this reason a perfectly true,
unsophisticated woman is almost impossible. For the same reason they see
through deception in others so easily, that it is not advisable to
attempt it as regards them. But from the fundamental failing indicated
and its accessories, arises falseness, disloyalty, treachery,
ingratitude, etc. Women are much more often guilty of judicial perjury
than men, indeed it may be fairly questioned whether they ought to be
allowed to take an oath. The case has repeated itself everywhere, from
time to time, of ladies who wanted for nothing, going into a shop and
secretly pocketing and stealing something.
Young, strong, and fine men are called by nature for the propagation of
the human race, in order that the race may not deteriorate. This is the
fixed WILL of nature, and the passions of women are its expression. This
law takes the precedence in age and force of every other. Woe therefore
to him who so places his rights and interests that they stand in the way
of it; no matter what he says and does, they will be mercilessly crushed
on the first important occasion. For the secret, unexpressed, and indeed
unconscious but inborn morality of women is: "We are justified in
deceiving those who, because they barely provide for us, the individual,
think that they have acquired a right over the species. The structure
and consequently the welfare of the species is placed in our hands by
means of generation, which immediately proceeds from us, and is
entrusted to our care; we will conscientiously manage it." Women however
are by no means conscious of this first principle in abstracto, but
merely in concreto, and have no other expression for it than their mode
of action when the opportunity comes, in which their conscience allows
them general
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