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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: suffering it entailed. If food were scarce, the destruction of superfluous
infants and of the aged might also always have been necessary for the good
of the individuals themselves as well as of society, and the whole society
would acquiesce in it without any moral doubt. If an eclipse of the sun
had once occurred in connection with the appearance of a certain new
insect, they mighty universally regard that insect as a god causing it; and
ages might pass without anything arising to disprove their belief. There
would be no social or religious problem; and the view of one man would be
the view of all men; and all would be more or less in harmony with the
established institution and customs.
But, supposing the sudden arrival of strangers armed with superior weapons
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