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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: where war has been to preserve life, or land, or freedom, unparasitised and
labouring women have in all ages known how to bear an active part, and die.
Nor will woman's influence militate against war because in the future woman
will not be able physically to bear her part in it. The smaller size of
her muscle, which would severely have disadvantaged her when war was
conducted with a battle-axe or sword and hand to hand, would now little or
at all affect her. If intent on training for war, she might acquire the
skill for guiding a Maxim or shooting down a foe with a Lee-Metford at four
thousand yards as ably as any male; and undoubtedly, it has not been only
the peasant girl of France, who has carried latent and hid within her
person the gifts that make the supreme general. If our European nations
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