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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: even be questioned whether those very leaders, who have superficially
appeared to create and organise great and successful social movements, have
themselves, in most cases, perhaps in any, fully understood in all their
complexity the movements they themselves have appeared to rule. They have
been, rather, themselves permeated by the great common need; and being
possessed of more will, passion, intensity, or intellect, they have been
able to give voice to that which in others was dumb, and conscious
direction to that which in others was unconscious desire: they have been
but the foremost crest of a great wave of human necessity: they have not
themselves created the wave which bears themselves, and humanity, onwards.
The artificial social movements which have had their origin in the
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