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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: viewing human society as a whole they are fundamentally wrong. The loss of
a small and unhealthy section will be the gain of human society as a whole.
In the male voluptuary of feeble intellect and unattractive individuality,
who depends for the gratification of his sexual instincts, not on his power
of winning and retaining the personal affection and admiration of woman,
but on her purchaseable condition, either in the blatantly barbarous field
of sex traffic that lies beyond the pale of legal marriage, or the not less
barbarous though more veiled traffic within that pale, the entrance of
woman into the new fields of labour, with an increased intellectual culture
and economic freedom, means little less than social extinction. But, to
those males who, even at the present day, constitute the majority in our
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