"From this general, not from the individual, standpoint, I am
trying to convince women that vengeance is being exacted on the
individual, on the race, when woman gradually destroys the deepest
vital source of her physical and psychical being, the power of
motherhood.
"But present-day woman is not adapted to motherhood; she will only
be fitted for it when she has trained herself for motherhood and
man is trained for fatherhood. Then man and woman can begin
together to bring up the new generation out of which some day
society will be formed. In it the completed man--the superman--will
be bathed in that sunshine whose distant rays but colour the
horizon of to-day."
CHAPTER IV
THE LAW OF CONSERVATION
Students of the physical sciences discovered in the nineteenth century a
universal law of Nature, always believed by the wisest since the time of
Thales, but never before proven, which is now commonly known as the law
of the conservation of energy. When we say to a child, "You cannot eat
your cake and have it," we are expressing the law of the conservation of
matter, which is really a more or less accurate part-expression of the
law of the conservation of energy. The law that from nothing nothing is
made--and further, though here this concerns us less, that nothing is
ever destroyed--is the only firm foundation for any work or any theory
whether in science or philosophy.
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