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throughout these chapters as the emotion of the 

 ideal. Schopenhauer spoke with an iasight in 

 advance of all the philosophers and reasoners of his 

 century when he described woman as the being of 

 the race rather than of the individual. It is woman 

 who, in the long aeons of evolutionary stress out of 

 which her mind has emerged, has ever been, by reason 

 of her relations to the man on the one hand, and to 

 the next generation on the other, the creature in the 

 constitution of whose mind, to a far greater extent 

 than in the case of the mind of a man, the interests 

 of the future, the distant, and the universal have been 

 represented. She has lived continually in every kind 

 of motive and emotion driving her to express herself 

 in others and to subordinate the present to the 

 future. 



The struggle of woman with Power for untold ages 

 has thus been a struggle which has gradually brought 

 her mind far closer to the principles of the universal 

 mind than the mind of man. It is for this reason 

 that, as we saw in the last chapter, woman naturally 

 and instinctively subordinates interest to principle. 

 The secret of man's progress Is that he has gradually 

 released into the service of civilization, ever at 

 higher and higher levels, all the stern qualities of 

 the chase and the fight bred in him through long 

 ages of primitive struggle. But when the ^motion 



