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creatures to busy themselves along lines that are help- 
ful toothers. 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 
is a historic cause? To remove the wrong 
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- 
Each defect 
a historic cause. 
