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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: of their apparently proved national aptitudes or disabilities, would be
regarded as insane. To insist that all Jews, and none but Jews, should
lead and instruct in religious matters; that all Englishmen, and none but
Englishmen, should engage in trade; that each German should make his living
by music, and none but a German allowed to practise it, would drive to
despair the unfortunate individual Englishman, whose most marked deficiency
might be in the direction of finance and bartering trade power; the Jew,
whose religious instincts might be entirely rudimentary; or the German, who
could not distinguish one note from another; and the society as a whole
would be an irremediable loser, in one of the heaviest of all forms of
social loss--the loss of the full use of the highest capacities of all its
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