PREFACE
SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for
suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists,
have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and
clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to
Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman?
Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every
kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien—IF, indeed, it
stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen,
that all dogma