[71] Further details on this subject may be found in “The Book of Women,” by Mrs. H. S. Adams, M. D., Stuttgart. [72] Dr. F. B. Simon, “The Care of the Health of Women.” [73] Dr. F. B. Simon discusses this subject and the analogous subject, why so many young women become ill after marriage without being able to account for it, at length. His book is a glaring reflection upon the wrongdoings and vices of men. CHAPTER XI. The Chances of Matrimony. 1.--The Numerical Proportion of the Sexes. The usual advice to women to seek their salvation in marriage, this being their true profession, is thoughtlessly approved of by the vast majority of men. But it seems like mockery, that many of those who give such advice and of those who applaud it, refrain from marrying themselves. Schopenhauer, the philosopher, has only the conception of a philistine concerning woman and her position. He says: “woman is not called upon to perform great tasks. Her characteristic is not doing but suffering. She pays her debt to life by the throes of child-birth, care of her child and ~submissiveness to her husband~. The supreme expressions of vitality and perception are denied her. Her life should be more tranquil and insignificant than man’s life. Woman is called upon to be the nurse and educator of childhood ~because she is childish herself~; because ~throughout life she remains a big child~, a sort of intermediary stage between child and man, ~the true human being~.... Girls should be reared to be domestic and ~submissive~.... ~Women are the most thoroughgoing, incurable philistines.~”