Note 6 — Chapter II · JUSTICE

The present writer has even heard women declare that the lot of the female human being, with all its disabilities and physical burdens, constitutes an “unjust” apportionment of pain and pleasure when compared with the lot of the male. It is difficult to discover what injustice is meant here, unless we conclude that women who speak in this way have acquired from their stupid men-folk ideas about a certain justice behind phenomena or in Nature, which in their particular existence appears to be transgressed. In any case we are quite safe in assuming that it cannot be an infringement of man’s justice that is meant here. It must, therefore, be the imaginary justice which is the subject of this essay, and which moral people read into the universe.