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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: and mother was she already a proficient well skilled to discharge the
duties appropriate to a wife?
Well skilled! (he replied). What proficiency was she likely to bring
with her, when she was not quite fifteen[6] at the time she wedded me,
and during the whole prior period of her life had been most carefully
brought up[7] to see and hear as little as possible, and to ask[8] the
fewest questions? or do you not think one should be satisfied, if at
marriage her whole experience consisted in knowing how to take the
wool and make a dress, and seeing how her mother's handmaidens had
their daily spinning-tasks assigned them? For (he added), as regards
control of appetite and self-indulgence,[9] she had received the
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