“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.
“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid and finished English form.”
+ Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”
– + Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.
Weininger, Otto. Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman ‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)
“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout, but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness. There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.