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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: the one comparatively free woman, whom they may have won, often only after
a long and tedious courtship.
So axiomatic is the statement that the value of the female to the male
varies as her freedom, that, given an account of any human society in which
the individual female is highly valued, it will be perfectly safe to infer
the comparative social freedom of woman; and, given a statement as to the
high degree of freedom of woman in a society, it will be safe to infer the
great sexual value of the individual woman to man.
Finally, if the suggestion, that men and women will cease to be attractive
to one another if women enter modern fields of labour, be based on the fact
that her doing so may increase her intelligence and enlarge her
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