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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: It was inevitable that before the sons of women such as these, the sons of
the parasitic Roman should be swept from existence, as the offspring of the
caged canary would fall in conflict with the offspring of the free.
Again and again with wearisome reiteration, the same story repeats itself.
Among the Jews in the days of their health and growth, we find their women
bearing the major weight of agricultural and domestic toil, full always of
labour and care--from Rachel, whom Jacob met and loved as she watered her
father's flocks, to Ruth, the ancestress of a line of kings and heroes,
whom her Boas noted labouring in the harvest-fields; from Sarah, kneading
and baking cakes for Abraham's prophetic visitors, to Miriam, prophetess
and singer, and Deborah, who judging Israel from beneath her palm-tree,
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