The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-10

book that it's special object is to an
swer, theoretically and practically, tn,
woman question; that it is AN attemp
to place the relation of the sexes in
new and decisive light
Decisive he assuredly is, nothing
could be more so; but the novelty Of
his light, or if it be light at all, is oper
to question.
He takes the ancient Oriental posi-
ton that women have no souls, and re
inforces it by the views of Greeks and
German philosophers and early Chris
tian fathers, with a few sparing and
cautious selections of scientific fact To
quote again from his impressive pref
ace: "The investigation is not of de-
tails, but of principles; it does not de-
spise the laboratory, although the help
of the laboratory, with regard to the
deeper problems, is limited as com
pared with the results of interpretive
analysis. -
This retrospective analysis is the
handspring of the work; the profound
lucubration of a philosophic mind; by
means of which he reaches such con
illusions as these:
''No men who think deeply about
women retain a high opinion of them;
men either despise women Or they have
never thought seriously about them. -
''W0man, in short, has an uncon
scious life, man a conscious life, and
the genius the most conscious life. -
ar as a raj n
as are men, but they have not the long
ing for Immortality
"A woman cannot grasp that one
must act from principle. -
WOMAN IS LOGICALLY INSANEl
''Woman resents any attempt to rd
quire from her that her thoughts
should be logical. She may be regard
ed as logically insane
''The absolute female has no ego. -
F'The male has everything within
him. 1t is possible for him to
attain to the Hottest heights, or to sink
to the lowest depths; he can become
like animals, like plants, or even like
women; and 50 there exist woman-llke
female men. The woman, on the other
hand can never become man.
81 am not arguing that woman is.
evil and antimoral; [ state that she
cannot be really evil. She is merely
nonmOral. -
These and many other vivid defni-
tive sentences, eliminating in the state
ment that ''woman is only a function
of man, a function he can raise or de-
grade at will, and women do not wish
to be more or anything else than what
man makes them,'' show something of
the remarkable results to be attained
by interpretive analysis.
The first or preparatory part of the
work advances a theory much of which !
seems reasonable and borne out by /
facts, namely, that sex is not manifest
ed in two absolutely opposite types, !
either in humanity or lower forms; but |
that there is an .'ideoplasm' in all |
our constituent cells; Arrhenoplasm
(male plasm). Thelyplasm (female |
plasm) and that this distinctive plasm
differs in amount not only In different
persons. but in different cells of the
same body. The absolute male or fe-
male he holds to be but abstract terms,
like the "ideaI gas of the chemists;
what we call males and females are
those of preponderating amounts of one
or the other plasm; and he deduces
neatly mathematical formula as to the
law of sex attraction. as resting Oh
these proportIonate differences
THE DEMAND FOR EMANCIPA-
TON.
We are familiar with the rough work
ing out of this principle in the often
noted marriages of especially mascu-
line men with especially feminine wom-
en-, and of the more feminine men with
more masculine women; but 1T seems
somewhat precipitate to reduce these
eases to this rigid measurement.
This theory, with a chapter on morbid
extremes and perverslons, and some
sagacious suggestions as to the unWls-
dom of educating all boys-or all girls
exactly alike, forms his preliminary
section; closing in chapter on 'eman-
cipated women - with the easy asser-
ton. "A woman demand for emanel-
patton and ier qualification I 1t are
in direct proportion to the amount OF
malenesS in her.
q Emancipation, he says, as he ,,
means to discuss it, is not the wish
for an outward equality with man, but ,
what is of real Importance in the wom-
an question. the deep-seated craving TO
ACQUIRE mans character, to attain his /
mental and moral freedom, to reach his
real interests and his creative power.
maintain that the real female element
has neither the desire nor the capacity
for emancipation in this sense
Having thus waved aside the . wom-
an question as a passing morb1dlty he
then approaches the main body OF the
book. on THE Sexual Types II
DO WOMEN REALLY THINK? y
There follow fourteen chapters of a :
most deep and metaphysical nature IN 4
which we are told first that so far there e
5 no female psychology, and that when
We have one it must be written by men, I
he being unconscious of her own CHAR
.cter. and unable TO express it even II Y
the were conscious of it-and were will |
NO 70 do so: that woman thinks IN 81
. henids vague processes not to be a
allied thought, and has to have a man
o think for her. In short, the woman q