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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: the individual consciousness--that primal battle-ground, in which all
questions of reform and human advance must ultimately be fought and
decided;--all this diversity, and the fact that the average woman is
entirely concerned in labour in her own little field, shows, not the
weakness, but the strength of the movement; which, taken as a whole, is a
movement steady and persistent in one direction, the direction of increased
activity and culture, and towards the negation of all possibility of
parasitism in the human female. Slowly, and unconsciously, as the child is
shaped in the womb, this movement shapes itself in the bosom of our time,
taking its place beside those vast human developments, of which men, noting
their spontaneity and the co-ordination of their parts, have said, in the
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