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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: only one presenting itself. How far otherwise might have been the
directions in which their genius would naturally have expressed itself can
be known only partially even to the women themselves; what the world has
lost by that compulsory expression of genius, in a form which may not have
been its most natural form of expression, or only one of its forms, no one
can ever know. Even in the little third-rate novelist whose works cumber
the ground, we see often a pathetic figure, when we recognise that beneath
that failure in a complex and difficult art, may lie buried a sound
legislator, an able architect, an original scientific investigator, or a
good judge. Scientifically speaking, it is as unproven that there is any
organic relation between the brain of the female and the production of art
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