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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: childhood are undoubtedly very largely the result of artificial training,
forcing on the appearance of psychic sexual divergencies long before they
would tend spontaneously to appear; as where sports and occupations are
interdicted to young children on the ground of their supposed sexual
unfitness; as when an infant female is forcibly prevented from climbing or
shouting, and the infant male from amusing himself with needle and thread
or dolls. Even in the fully adult human, and in spite of differences of
training, the psychic activities over a large extent of life appear to be
absolutely identical. The male and female brains acquire languages, solve
mathematical problems, and master scientific detail in a manner wholly
indistinguishable: as illustrated by the fact that in modern universities
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