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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: itself. Among the wealthy and so-called upper classes, the males of
various aristocracies have frequently tended to become completely parasitic
after a lapse of time, but such a condition has always been met by a short
and sharp remedy; and the class has fallen, or become extinct. The
condition of the males of the upper classes in France before the Revolution
affords an interesting illustration of this point.)
The labour of the man may not always be useful in the highest sense to his
society, or it may even be distinctly harmful and antisocial, as in the
case of the robber-barons of the Middle Ages, who lived by capturing and
despoiling all who passed by their castles; or as in the case of the share
speculators, stock-jobbers, ring-and-corner capitalists, and monopolists of
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