Note 491 — Chapter XVIII
Eden Paul translation
V. Hoffmann, in a bad novel, “Das vierte Geschlecht” (Berlin, 1902), gives this name to the non-homosexual misogynists.
[492] Karl Gutzkow, “Säkularbilder,” vol. i., p. 55 (Frankfurt, 1846).
[493] In the Shi-king we find the following characterization of woman:
“Enough for her to avoid evil, For what can a woman do that is good?”
Indian literature is also full of such ideas. Cf. H. Schurtz, “Altersklassen und Männerbunde” (Age Classes and Associations of Men), p. 52.
[494] Simonides considered that women were derived from various animals. W. Schubert (“From the Berlin Collection of Papyri,” published in the Vossische Zeitung, No. 23, January 15, 1907) reproduces long fragments of a Greek anthology which collates praise and blame of woman in the original words of the poets.
[495] I quote from “The Plays of Euripides in English,” in two volumes, vol. ii., p. 136 (Everyman’s Library, Dent, London).—Translator.
[496] H. T. Finck, “Romantic Love and Personal Beauty,” vol. i., pp. 186, 187 (Breslau, 1894).
[497] Equally amusing is the misogynist “Alphabet de l’Imperfection et Malice des Femmes,” by Jacques Olivier (Rouen, 1646), in which all the bad qualities of woman, observed down to the year 1646, are described with effective care and completeness.
[498] We know that Schopenhauer was a lover of erotic writings; a fuller account of this matter will be found in Grisebach’s “Conversations and Soliloquies of Schopenhauer.”
[499] That Nietzsche is wrongly accredited with misogyny is convincingly proved by Helene Stocker (“Nietzsches Frauenfeindschaft,” published in Zukunft, 1903; reprinted in “Love and Women,” pp. 65-74; Minden, 1906).
[500] P. J. Möbius, “The Physiological Weak-mindedness of Woman,” fourth edition (Halle, 1902). Näcke terms the recently deceased Möbius the “German Lombroso,” in order by this term to indicate, on the one hand, the man’s indubitable genius, and on the other hand the superficiality and purely hypothetical character of his scientific deductions.
[501] The grounds for this opinion were given in the fifth chapter.