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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: intellectual and more delicate mechanical fields of labour; that the
preponderance of nervous and cerebral over muscular material, and the
tendency towards preservative and creative activity over pugilistic and
destructive, so far from shutting her off from the most important fields of
human toil, may increase her fitness for them! We have no certain proof
that it is so at present; but, if woman's long years of servitude and
physical subjection, and her experience as child-bearer and protector of
infancy, should, in any way, be found in the future to have endowed her, as
a kind of secondary sexual characteristic, with any additional strength of
social instinct, with any exceptional width of human sympathy and any
instinctive comprehension; then, it is not merely possible, but certain,
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