[202] Finally among the great thinkers of Europe who have held the view that women are indifferent to truth, and incapable of rectitude, I would further mention Rousseau, Diderot, La Bruyère, and that great genius Kant, who, in his _Ueber Pädagogik_ coldly conjures fathers to enforce truthfulness in their children because “mothers have a tendency to attach but little importance to it.” His exact words are (p. 108 of the Königsberg 1813 Edition), speaking of children’s habit of lying, “_Des Vaters Sache ist es, darauf zu sehen, dass sich die Kinder dessen entwöhnen; denn die Mütter achten es gemeiniglich für eine Sache von keiner, oder doch nur geringer Bedeutung._” [203] See Chapter VIII of that work. [204] See White’s _Natural History of Selborne_. Letters LXXVI and “Observations on Quadrupeds.” [205] The researches of ornithologists during recent years sufficiently prove that the female cuckoo lays her egg upon the ground, and then deposits it in the nest of a bird whose egg resembles the one she has just laid. [206] See chap. IX, verse 14. [207] Op. cit., p. 121. See also Weininger, Op. cit., p. 250. [208] Letter to d’Alembert. [209] Among other reasons accounting for woman’s dependence on man for art-forms is her lack of originality. [210] See my _Man’s Descent from the Gods_, chap. VIII. [211] Op. cit., p. 226. [212] One or two exceptions will occur to the reader’s mind, such as Mahommed and Benjamin Disraeli; but these are not really exceptions, because in each case the woman was rich enough to compensate for her husband’s impecunious and unsuccessful condition. [213] See W. S. Coleman, M.E.S., _British Butterflies_, p. 4: “Prompted by a most remarkable instinct, and one that could not have originated in any experience of personal advantage, the female butterfly, when seeking a depository for her eggs, selects with unerring certainty the very plant which, of all others, is best fitted for the support of her offspring, who, when hatched, find themselves surrounded by an abundant store of their proper food.”