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!