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race is always to her more than the individual. The 

 natural, the inborn, and the unchanging attitude 

 of the whole of woman's sex to man Schopenhauer 

 asserts to be the attitude of woman to an all- 

 powerful opponent whose strength to enforce his 

 will has to be subdued to a purpose in the future. 

 For in the darkest recesses of their hearts, he 

 continues, " women live altogether more in the 

 race than in the individual ; they regard the affairs 

 of the species as more serious than those of the 

 individual." * 



It is this extraordinary insight into woman's 

 true relationship to Power which constitutes 

 Schopenhauer's main contribution to the sum of 

 human knowledge. In the result it drives him into 

 a kind of frenzied opposition to woman. The line 

 of Schopenhauer's successors in the modern West 

 have since consistently striven to develop the 

 doctrine of Power with their faces set resolutely to 

 the past, until it becomes at length in the individual 

 and in the state alike the disastrous Nietzschean 

 doctrine of strength acknowledging no authority but 

 its own will and no morality but its own advantage. 

 Of Woman, said Nietzsche, " Thou goest to her : do not 

 forget thy whip." 2 Of the State, said Bernhardi, 

 " the whole discussion turns not on international 



1 Op. cit., p. 343. a Zaralhustra. 



