Women, and the hatred of women -- Erotics and sexuality -- Platonic love -- The idea of love -- Beauty of women -- Relation to sexual impulse -- Love and beauty -- Difference between æsthetics, logic and ethics -- Modes of love -- Projection phenomena -- Beauty and morality -- Nature and ethics -- Natural and artistic beauty -- Sexual love as guilt -- Hate, love and morality -- Creation of the devil -- Love and sympathy -- Love and shyness -- Love and vanity -- Love of woman as a means to an end -- Relation between the child and love, the child and sexuality -- Love and murder -- Madonna-worship -- Madonna, a male idea, without basis in womanhood -- Woman sexual, not erotic -- Sense of beauty in women -- How man acts on woman -- The fate of the woman -- Why man loves woman CHAPTER XII THE NATURE OF WOMAN AND HER SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UNIVERSE 252 Meaning of womanhood -- Instinct for pairing or matchmaking -- Man, and matchmaking -- High valuation of coitus -- Individual sexual impulse, a special case -- Womanhood as pairing or universal sexuality -- Organic falseness of woman -- Hysteria -- Difference between man and beast, woman and man -- The higher and lower life -- Birth and death -- Freedom and happiness -- Happiness and man -- Happiness and woman -- Woman and the problem of existence -- Non-existence of woman -- Male and female friendship -- Pairing identical with womanhood -- Why women must be regarded as human -- Contrast between subject -- Object, matter, form, man, woman -- Meaning of henids -- Formation of woman by man -- Significance of woman in the universe -- Man as something, woman as nothing -- Psychological problem of the fear of woman -- Womanhood and crime -- Creation of woman by man’s crime -- Woman as his own sexuality accepted by man -- Woman as the guilt of man -- What man’s love of woman is, in its deepest significance CHAPTER XIII JUDAISM 301 Differences amongst men -- Intermediate forms and racial anthropology -- Comparison of Judaism and femaleness -- Judaism as an idea -- Antisemitism -- Richard Wagner -- Similarities between Jews and women -- Judaism in science -- The Jew not a monad -- The Jew and the Englishman -- Nature of humour -- Humour and satire -- The Jewess -- Deepest significance of Judaism -- Want of faith -- The Jew not non-mystical, yet impious -- Want of earnestness, and pride -- The Jew as opposed to the hero -- Judaism and Christianity -- Origin of Christianity -- Problem of the founders of religion -- Christ as the conqueror of the Judaism in Himself -- The founders of religions as the greatest of men -- Conquest of inherent Judaism necessary for all founders of religion -- Judaism and the present time -- Judaism, femaleness, culture and humanity CHAPTER XIV