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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: towards the man, of the sexes towards closer union.
Much is said at the present day on the subject of the "New Woman" (who, as
we have seen, is essentially but the old non-parasitic woman of the remote
past, preparing to draw on her new twentieth-century garb): and it cannot
truly be said that her attitude finds a lack of social attention. On every
hand she is examined, praised, blamed, mistaken for her counterfeit,
ridiculed, or deified--but nowhere can it be said, that the phenomenon of
her existence is overlooked.
But there exists at the present day another body of social phenomena, quite
as important, as radical, and if possible more far-reaching in its effects
on the present and future, which yet attracts little conscious attention or
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