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creatures to busy themselves along lines that are help- 

 ful to others. The child of altruism survives. When the 

 drone bee — the male — has accomplished his purpose, he 

 is ruthlessly stung to death by the workers. He is no 

 longer needed in the community. That he would live 

 for life's sake, that he would buzz for buzz's sake, does 

 not concern the workers. He is of no use to the future 

 — therefore away with him ! 



Let us for present purposes accept Schopenhauer's 

 analysis of the defects of woman's character. May we 



not say that for each real defect there 



Each defect • u- «. • -it- ..l 



is a historic cause ? loremove the wrong 



a historic cause. . . . 



IS to destroy its reaction. If women are 



given to small deceit, it is because men have been ad- 

 dicted to small tyranny. If women are short-sighted, it 

 is because in the nature of things the near things have 

 been woman's province. If a woman has not a judicial 

 mind, it is because the protection of the child makes her 

 necessarily a partisan. If woman in her care of the 

 species neglects the individual, it is because in the past 

 she has been driven or sold into the custody of indi- 

 viduals not lovable for themselves. If she shows in one 

 form or another the same weaknesses as man, it is be- 

 cause she is, in fact, very man, bone of his bone and 

 flesh of his flesh. We are all poor creatures, and to 

 quarrel with the defects of human nature is as futile 

 as to hold "a feud with the equator." The desire of 

 woman to seek mastery through the conquest of man is 

 in part an outgrowth of the militarism of past genera- 

 tions, when security was possible only through such 

 means. It is a trait of the lower races of men, as of 

 the monkey families, that the male should be a tyrant. 

 Whenever tyranny exists it is met by deceit. In the 

 reign of physical force, those who are weak must win 

 strength by the force of love or intrigue. This condi- 



