degrading enthusiasms, his sister is under instruction in all those
higher exercises of the wits that her special deficiencies make
necessary to her security, and in particular in all those exercises
which aim at overcoming the physical, and hence social and
economic superiority of man by attacks upon his inferior capacity
for clear reasoning, uncorrupted by illusion and sentimentality.






12.


Honour


Here, it is obvious, the process of intellectual development takes
colour from the Sklavenmoral, and is, in a sense, a product of it.
The Jews, as Nietzsche has demonstrated, got their unusual
intelligence by the same process; a contrary process is working in
the case of the English and the Americans, and has begun to show
itself in the case of the French and Germans. The sum of feminine
wisdom that I have just mentioned--the body of feminine devices
and competences that is handed down from generation to generation
of women--is, in fact, made up very largely of doctrines and
expedients that infallibly appear to the average sentimental man,
helpless as he is before them, as cynical and immoral. He
commonly puts this aversion into the theory that women have no