eeply regret to say) a joy ride;
but at least the man goes with the woman as much as the woman with the
man. In France the young woman is protected like a nun while she is
unmarried; but when she is a mother she is really a holy woman; and when
she is a grandmother she is a holy terror.

By both extremes the woman gets something back out of life. There is
only one place where she gets little or nothing back, and that is the
north of Germany. France and America aim alike at equality; America by
similarity, France by dissimilarity. But North Germany does definitely
aim at inequality. The woman stands up with no more irritation than a
butler; the man sits down with no more embarrassment than a guest. This
is the cool affirmation of inferiority, as in the case of the sabre and
the tradesmen. "Thou goest with women; forget not thy whip," said
Nietzsche. It will be observed that he does not say "poker," which might
come more naturally to the mind of a more common or Christian
wife-beater. But, then, a poker is a part of domesticity, and might be
used by the wife as well as the husband. In fact, it often is. The sword
and the whip are the weapons of a privileged caste.

Pass from the closest of all differences, that between husband and wife,
to the most distant of all differences, that of the remote and unrelated
races who have seldom seen each other's faces, and never been tinged
with each other's blood. Here we still find the same unvarying Prussian
principle. Any European might feel a genuine fear of the Yellow Peril,
and many Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Russians have felt and expressed it.
Many might say, and have said, that the heathen Chinee is very heathen
indeed; that if he ever advances against us he will trample and torture
and utterly destroy, in a way that Eastern people do, but Western people
do not. Nor do I doubt the German Emperor's sincerity when he sought to
point out to us how abnormal and abominable such a nightmare campaign
would be, supposing that it could come.

But now comes the comic irony, which never fails to follow on the
attempt of the Prussian to be philosophic. For the Kaiser, after
explaining to his troops how important it was to avoid Eastern
barbarism, instantly commanded them to become Eastern barbarians. He
told them, in so many words, to be Huns, and leave nothing living or
standing behind them. In fact, he frankly offered a new army corps of
aboriginal Tartars to the Far East, within such