Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

The psycho-physical parallelism gradually becomes more complete:
My lack of strength.
Weakness, weaklings with regard to morality embody poor strength and courage:
Jew and strength, Woman and strength.
Is it dependent upon the strength of a man whether he has sons or daughters?
People nowadays deliberate, the light of which falls upon hopes, to find a simple
natural law according to which sex is regulated. Certainly this also stands under an
ethical law. But a biological natural law of a process in which one is dealing with
either the incarnation of a soul, or the arisal of a fleeting illusion-lie, as in the case of
woman, cannot be. And at the very least it can, by way of experiment, be influenced
by other factors. This is again valid for people. A method of intervention is totally
impossible here. Just as little is a mechanical cause conceivable for the prevalence of
male births.
Sex: moreover, often depends only upon the man.
Man and Woman – Something and Nothing.
Here is the key for the problem of the sex-determining cause.
The inner ambiguity of the Jew should not be confused with the chaos of the
criminal.
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