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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: entire subversion of the deepest of those elements on which human, and even
animal, life on the globe is based, is possible from so inadequate a cause:
and it might well be passed silently, were it not that, under some form or
other, this argument frequently recurs, now in a more rational and then in
a more irrational form; constituting sometimes an objection in even
moderately intelligent minds, to the entrance of woman into the new fields
of labour.
It must be at once frankly admitted that, were there the smallest possible
danger in this direction, the sooner woman laid aside all endeavour in the
direction of increased knowledge and the attainment of new fields of
activity, the better for herself and for the race.
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