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with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with 
tusks, bulls with horns, and the cuttle-fish with its cloud 
of inky fluid, so Nature has equipped woman for her 
defence and protection with the arts of dissimulation. 
Hence dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as 
much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. It is 
natural for them to make use of it on every occasion, as 
it is for those animals to employ their means of defence 
they are when attacked ; they have a feeling that in doing 
so they are only within their rights. Therefore a woman 
who is perfectly truthful and not given to dissimulation 
is perhaps an impossibility, and for this very reason they 
are so quick at seeing through dissimulation in others 
that it is not a wise thing to attempt it with them.” 
Women, moreover, live for the species, not for the 
individual. If a woman be faithless to an old or unro- 
mantic or inattentive man she will feel 
no remorse. It is her instinct to con- 
sider the interest of the species, not of 
the person who may represent the species for the time 
being. 
“And since women exist in the main solely for the 
propagation of the species and are not destined for any- 
thing else, they live, as a rule, more for the species than 
for the individual, and in their hearts take the af- 
fairs of the species more seriously than those of the 
individual. This gives their whole life and being a 
certain levity; the general bent of their character is in 
a direction fundamentally different from that of the 
man; and it is this which produces that discord in mar- 
ried life which is so frequent and almost the normal 
state. 
“The natural feeling between men is mere indiffer- 
ence, but between women it is actual enmity. The 
reason of this is trade jealousy, which, in the case of 
Woman lives for 
the species. 
