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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: determine by the colour of his eyes and the shape and strength of his legs,
whether a lad should be an astronomer or an engraver. Those physical
differences among mankind which divide races and nations--not merely those
differences, enormously greater as they are generally, than any physical
differences between male and female of the same race, which divide the Jew
and the Swede, the Japanese and the Englishman, but even those subtle
physical differences which divide closely allied races such as the English
and German--often appear to be allied with certain subtle differences in
intellectual aptitudes. Yet even with regard to these differences, it is
almost impossible to determine scientifically in how far they are the
result of national traditions, environment, and education, and in how far
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