Not one of those ponderous, conscience-stricken herding-animals (who undertake to advocate the cause of egoism as conducive to the general welfare) wants to have any knowledge or inkling of the facts that the "general welfare" is no ideal, no goal, no notion that can be at all grasped, but is only a nostrum,--that what is fair to one _may not_ at all be fair to another, that the requirement of one morality for all is really a detriment to higher men, in short, that there is a _distinction of rank_ between man and man, and consequently between morality and morality. 175 That which constitutes the painful delight of tragedy is cruelty; that which operates agreeably in so-called tragic sympathy, and at the basis even of everything sublime, up to the highest and most delicate thrills of metaphysics, obtains its sweetness solely from the intermingled ingredient of cruelty. 177 Enlightenment hitherto has fortunately been men's affair, men's gift--we remained therewith "among ourselves"; and in the end, in view of all that women write about "woman," we may well have considerable doubt as to whether woman really _desires_ enlightenment about herself--and _can_ desire it. If woman does not thereby seek a new _ornament_ for herself--I believe ornamentation belongs to the eternally feminine?--why, then, she wishes to make herself feared; perhaps she thereby wishes to get the mastery. But she does not _want_ truth--what does woman care for truth. From the very first nothing is more foreign, more repugnant, or more hostile to woman than truth--her great art is falsehood, her chief concern is appearance and beauty. 183 It betrays corruption of the instincts--apart from the fact that it betrays bad taste--when a woman refers to Madame Roland, or Madame de Staël, or Monsieur George Sand, as though something were proved thereby in _favour_ of "woman as she is." Among men, these are the three _comical_ women as they are--nothing more--and just the best involuntary _counter-arguments_ against feminine emancipation and autonomy. 184 Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook; the terrible thoughtlessness with which the feeding of the family and the master of the house is managed. Woman does not understand what food _means,_ and she insists on being cook. If woman had been a thinking creature, she should certainly, as cook for thousands of years, have discovered the most important physiological facts, and should likewise have got possession of the healing art. Through bad female cooks--through the entire lack of reason in the kitchen--the development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with. 184-185