stupidity which we embody, our spiritual fate, the UNTEACHABLE in us, quite “down below.” — In view of this liberal compliment which I have just paid myself, permission will perhaps be more readily allowed me to utter some truths about “woman as she is,” provided that it is known at the outset how literally they are merely — MY truths.

232. Woman wishes to be independent, and therefore she begins to enlighten men about “woman as she is” — THIS is one of the worst developments of the general UGLIFYING of Europe. For what must these clumsy attempts of feminine scientificality and self-exposure bring to light! Woman has so much cause for shame; in woman there is so much pedantry, superficiality, schoolmasterliness, petty presumption, unbridledness, and indiscretion